1 and 3 London Road

Nos 1 and 3 London Road are a house, now divided into offices (No. 1) and a house (No. 3), dating to the mid-17th century, with alterations in the early 19th century. The building is timber-framed, with plastered walls faced in Flemish bond gault brick and a roof of handmade red plain tiles. The structure comprises two parallel ranges aligned northwest-southeast (with gable ends facing the street), connected by a short central section containing a rear stack and a front entrance/stair hall, resulting in an almost rectangular plan.

No. 1 occupies the left range, the stair hall, and part of the stack, with its entrance on London Road. No. 3 occupies the right part, with its entrance facing southwest. A 19th-century extension abuts St. Osyth Cottage (listed separately) to the rear of No. 1, providing vehicle access to a rear yard. A 19th-century lean-to extension is located at the rear of No. 3. Inserted stacks are present in the middle of the left range and to the left of the right range. The building is two storeys and attics in height.

The London Road elevation of No. 1 features, on the ground floor, a three-sashed bay with twelve lights, one fixed light and one sash of twelve lights, all dating to the 18th century. The first floor has two similar sashes and a 19th-century casement. A 19th-century casement is also in the left gable. A six-panel door is set within a doorcase with pilasters and a moulded pediment. The southwest elevation (No. 3) is faced with gault brick and has two windows with 18th-century sashes of twelve lights, flat arches of gauged brick, and crown glass. A blind aperture is above the central door. A six-panel door is located at the front of a simple gault brick porch with a lean-to roof. Internal features include chamfered axial and transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops on both storeys, plain vertical-section joists, face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates, unjowled posts, and primary straight bracing.

Much of the timber is re-used from a medieval hall house. The left range's roof consists of smoke-blackened rafters from a crownpost or collar-rafter roof, rebuilt in clasped purlin form. The property also has butt-edged hardwood floorboards. The dogleg staircase, running from ground to attic in four flights, features a moulded handrail, stick balusters, and five urn-profile splat balusters on the top landing. Original wattle and daub infill remains in some internal walls. The entrance hall of No. 1 contains an 18th-century corner cupboard with fluted jambs, a semi-circular arch, recessed back with a domical head, profiled shelves, and a lower-panelled door with nine lights and ovolo-moulded glazed bars. No. 3 has an inserted straight stair; and the main stack's hearth contains a Victorian cast iron grate. The attic of No. 1 was damaged by fire in November 1986.