25, Church Street

This is a house dating to around 1600, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed, with plaster and weatherboard cladding, and a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The building has three bays facing southeast, with a central stack on the right-hand side and a stack to the rear of the left bay. There is an original or earlier short wing behind the left stack, and a longer 18th-century wing to the right of it, with a 20th-century conservatory beyond.

The house has two storeys and attics. The ground floor features a late 19th-century tripartite sash window with 2-4-2 lights, and a 19th-century double shopfront, with windows of 2 and 3 lights, now used for domestic purposes. The first floor has two early 19th-century sashes, each with 16 lights and crown glass. Dormers are topped with 19th-century casements. A four-panel door with a stone step leads into the building, alongside recessed double half-glazed doors to the former shop.

The building features a full-length jetty with a simple moulded fascia, weatherboarded below and plastered in raised panels above. There is also a moulded eaves cornice. Inside, there are chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops on both storeys, with mostly plain joists, but three reused moulded joists are located in the front part of the left bay. Primary straight bracing and studding are exposed in the cross walls. The left stack has an altered large wood-burning hearth, with a chamfered mantel beam and lamb's tongue stops. A blocked doorway with a straight head is found in a cross wall on the first floor, and old hardwood floorboards, likely original, are on the first floor and in the attic. The roof is a clasped purlin design with high arched collars.

In the left side of the rear left wing, on the first floor, is a blocked unglazed window with mortices for two diamond mullions and a rebate for a sliding shutter, which suggests an earlier date of construction or lower status.