14, West Street

No. 14 West Street is a house dating from the 14th or 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame, plastered with some areas of weatherboarding, and is roofed with handmade red plain tiles. The building has a three-bay layout, with the gable end facing the street and an internal stack located on the right side of the middle bay. There is a 19th-century extension at the rear left, which has a red brick wall on the lower storey and weatherboarding above.

The house stands two storeys tall with attics. Each floor has one sash window with 10+10 lights, and there is an early 19th-century sash window with 16 lights in the attic gable. A 20th-century glazed door is set within a recessed porch, and there is a small 18th-century two-light casement window on the right side.

Inside, the first internal binding beam from the front is deeply chamfered with step stops and features a solid knee that is 0.13 metres wide at the left end. To the right of this beam are mortices for a similar knee and post, as well as mortices and a wattle groove for a former studded partition, suggesting there was originally a through-passage to the left and a small enclosed area to the front right, likely used as a shop. A 20th-century grate is located in front of a large stack, which is probably from the 16th or 17th century. The second beam is chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, indicating a late 16th or early 17th-century addition, likely representing the inserted floor of an open hall.

Plain joists of horizontal section are exposed in part of the rear bay, while others are plastered to the soffits. The rear extension features thin joists of vertical section. An early 19th-century winder stair has a moulded handrail, turned balusters, and altered newels. There is a chamfered internal tie beam with step stops, which has mortices for missing arch-braces. An inserted attic floor has plain joists of vertical section and early hardwood floorboards.