House On The Corner Of The Green And Silver Street

This house, located at the corner of The Green and Silver Street in Wethersfield, dates from the late 16th century and has been extended in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame with plaster and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The building has four bays facing northeast, with an axial stack in the second bay from the left, a 19th-century external stack at the right end, and an original wing behind the left end. There is an early 17th-century extension to the left of the rear wing and a late 19th-century extension at the left end of the main range. Additional extensions on all sides have created a complex plan that was used for multiple occupations until around 1970.

The house is two storeys with attics and includes a flat-roofed single-storey extension that was formerly a shop, which stands forward of the left end. On the ground floor, there are four sash windows, each with 15 upper lights and 2 lower lights, a square bay of casements, two 20th-century casements, and one 19th-century casement. The first floor features two early 19th-century sashes with 16 lights and two late 19th-century casements, along with one late 19th-century casement in a gabled dormer. The entrance has a four-panel door topped with a dentilled pediment and grouped diagonal shafts.

Inside, the original building includes jowled posts, some exposed close studding, a moulded axial beam with step stops in the left bay, and a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops to the right of the stack. The plain joists are of horizontal section, with face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates. Above the first floor are chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops, and the roof features clasped purlins with arched wind bracing. There is a large cement-rendered wood-burning hearth facing left and another reduced for a 20th-century grate facing right. A blocked original window is located in the left wall of the rear wing, which is now inside the early 17th-century extension. The walls of the rear wing have been raised approximately one metre, and the first floor has also been raised. The current owner has not named the house.