5 And 7, East Street

Nos. 5 and 7 East Street are a pair of attached shops with houses above, now functioning as one house (No. 5) and one shop with a house above (No. 7). They date from the early 19th century but incorporate some structure from the 15th century. The buildings are timber framed, covered in weatherboarding, and have a slate roof. They have a square plan facing south, with a shared axial stack, an external stack to the left, and two rear stacks. There is a 20th-century single-storey extension with a flat roof at the rear center.

The buildings rise to three storeys and feature two early 19th-century shopfronts beneath a full-width jetty. No. 5, on the left, has a bowed window with 24 lights, narrow reeded pilasters with paterae, a blocked doorway to the left, a half-glazed door with a blocked overlight to the right, and a wrought iron bootscraper. No. 7, on the right, has a similar window that has been altered to a splayed bay with one large light and four vertical lights, double half-glazed doors with marginal lights, and an overlight with geometrical tracery. A continuous simple moulded fascia runs over both shops at the front of the jetty.

On the first and second floors, each building has early 19th-century sash windows with 12 and 16 lights, featuring crown and early sheet glass. No. 5 has an early 19th-century quarter-turn stair with turned newels, a wreathed and moulded mahogany handrail, and stick balusters. There is also an early 19th-century fire surround with moulded paterae on the first floor. No. 7 has a similar stair. Although no structure is visible, the framing exposed in No. 9, to the right, indicates that No. 7 incorporates the framing of a two-storey, two-bay crosswing from a 15th-century hall house. The wallplate features an edge-halved scarf with sallied and bridled abutments.