Gambrel House Gambrel West

The building comprises two houses, formerly a single house, dating to the mid-19th century, with a rear wing of the 16th century and incorporated earlier features. The main range is constructed of painted brick with a slate roof, while the rear wings are timber framed and plastered with a roof of handmade red plain tiles. The main range faces north and includes an axial stack to the right and a rear stack, with a crosswing on the left featuring two internal stacks. A wing to the rear right is of uncertain date, with an internal stack, and a further two-bay wing to the rear, dating to the 16th century, with a 20th-century external stack on its left side.

The crosswing is two storeys with attics, the main range is two storeys with a cellar, and the rear wings are also two storeys high. The ground floor windows at the front are late 19th-century sashes. The first floor has three mid-19th-century tripartite sashes with 4-12-4 lights in segmental arches. An attic window in the crosswing is a mid-19th-century sash of 8 lights with a semi-circular head within a gabled half-dormer. Two half-glazed 5-panel doors, each with a plain overlight, provide access. There is a moulded band at first-floor level and a dentilled eaves cornice.

On the left elevation of the rear wing's first floor, two 18th or early 19th-century sashes of 12 lights are visible. The rear two bays of the rear wing feature a chamfered binding beam and chamfered horizontal section joists, jointed to the beam with soffit tenons with diminished haunches, all with plain stops. A jetty underbuilds the rear end. There are three diamond mortices associated with a blocked window in the right wallplate. The roof is hipped.

Little of the original structure is visible in the front part of the rear wing other than two chamfered beams. Two 18th or early 19th-century borrowed lights, each of 6 lights with crown glass, are present on the ground floor, along with a wood-burning hearth rebuilt in the 20th century. The cellar of the main range incorporates an early 19th-century moulded beam and a series of similarly moulded joists, reused to form the ground floor. A 15th-century spere truss is incorporated into the party wall on the right side of the main range, to the rear of the centre, featuring one of two arched corner braces. This relates to a hall that previously occupied the site of number 42 (Brook House). The rear wing was renovated in 1984.