12, West Street

This is a late 16th-century house, altered in the 19th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The house is a three-bay range with a gable end facing the street, and contains a 19th-century chimney stack on the left side of the rear bay. There's a one-bay extension to the rear, also with a stack on the left side, and a small, single-storey lean-to extension to the rear right. A covered vehicle way leads through to the rear on the right side, roofed at eaves height, and shares a listing with the adjacent property at number 10 (Grange View).

The front of the house has a two-story, splayed bay of sash windows, originally incorporating 12, 16, and 12 lights. Painted brickwork is visible below the ground-floor windows. The lower sashes of the ground-floor windows and the upper sash of the central first-floor window have been altered to single large panes. The remaining sashes appear to be original from the early 19th century. A 19th-century door is set within a simple doorcase.

The rear elevation features a late 19th-century sash window of four lights with a semi-circular head, another late 19th-century sash, and a further sash at half-floor level, illuminating the staircase. The return wall, facing the vehicle way, is partly flush-boarded to first-floor height, partly weatherboarded up to a dado height with plaster above. The ground floor has a 19th-century sash window of 16 lights, and a blocked doorway which has been replaced with a 20th-century casement window. Some imitation framing has been applied to the plasterwork above. The left wall of the front ground-floor room is faced with 20th-century brickwork in stretcher bond.

Inside, a chamfered transverse beam is present, unstopped; in the middle bay, a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain, horizontally sectioned joists; and in the rear bay, a chamfered longitudinal beam, joggled and unstopped. Other joists are plastered to their soffits, with imitation joists exposed in the rear bay. A jetty may exist at the front of the house. Above the first floor, chamfered transverse and axial beams are unstopped. There is a 20th-century grate in the front stack, and a blocked 19th-century hearth in the rear stack. The house also retains 18th-century battened doors, although little of the original framing is visible.