Virginia House

Virginia House is a house, dating back to the 16th century, with extensions built in the early 19th and 20th centuries. It is now part of an attached pair of properties. The house is timber-framed and has a brick facade, all internally plastered, with a slate roof. It originally comprised a two-bay crosswing aligned north-west to south-east of a former hall house. In the early 19th century, the house was extended to the left to create a range of cottages, and further extensions were added to the rear in the 20th century. There is one internal chimney stack. The building abuts at the left with No. 191, which is not listed.

The front of the house has two storeys, with a single sash window of two lights on the ground floor and one similar sash window, plus two blocked openings, on the first floor. There is an early 19th-century six-panel door, with the top panel glazed, recessed in the right return. Other external features are from the 20th century. The roof has a low-pitched hipped form.

The original timber frame shows a jetty to the street, concealed by the brick facade. It includes jowled posts, heavy studding with curved tension braces trenched into it, a cambered central tiebeam, and plain joists with plastered soffits. Rafter seatings on the rear tiebeam suggest a hipped roof at the rear, but this structure above the tiebeam level was removed to create the current low roof. During recent work, the owner discovered vertical tile-hanging on the left flank wall, which was enclosed within the early 19th-century extension and has since been removed.