76, Church Street

This is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a facade of red brick in Flemish bond, and a roof of handmade red plain tiles. A 19th-century extension is of gault brick in Flemish bond, with a slate roof. A late 19th-century wing at the rear is plastered and has a slate roof. The building has three rear stacks, and an original wing to the rear left, which is splayed to a parallelogram plan. An early 19th-century gault wing is located to the rear centre, with an internal stack on the right side, and a late 19th-century wing is to the rear right.

The main part of the front facade is set forward and has a five-window range of 18th-century sash windows with flat arches of gauged brick and crown glass; one window on the left has an altered lower sash. A central door is surrounded by a doorcase with panelled jambs, a soffit, plaster pilasters, an entablature and a moulded pediment. The facade has been pecked to roughen the texture. The right part of the facade is of smooth, handmade brick and features 19th or 20th-century sash windows in each storey, with similar arches, continuing along with a stepped parapet to hide a lean-to extension. There are three 19th-century casements in gabled dormers, and one in a hip roof. The roof is fully hipped.

The left return and rear elevation of the left wing are bricked up to first-floor level and plastered above. On the upper storey of the rear elevation, 18th and early 19th-century sash windows remain on all three wings. One window has 16 lights, two have 12 lights with flat arches of gauged brick, one has 12 lights, and one has 10+10 lights. The original timber frame is largely concealed by interior finishes, but a sharply jowled post is visible at the rear right corner. Exposed, unmutilated beams are chamfered with lamb's tongue stops; one is plastered over with 18th-century moulded covings. The main range is continuous despite the step in the facade.

Inside, there is an early 19th-century geometrical staircase in the middle wing, with a wreathed mahogany handrail, cast iron newel encircled by stick balusters and scrolled tread-ends. A grey marble fireplace is in this wing. An 18th or 19th-century fireplace with Delft tiles is located in the left wing. The roof structure is a clamped purlin roof with arched collars at half-bay intervals. Original 18th-century folding shutters, panelled and fielded, are in front of the ground-floor windows.