Shaw House

Shaw House is a house located on Church Street in Blackmore, dating from the late medieval period and altered in the 18th and 20th centuries. It features a timber-framed structure that is plastered and weatherboarded, topped with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The exterior appears to consist of two houses: the left side has two storeys with a roof parallel to the street and an internal stack in front of the ridge, while the right side is a single storey with attics, also parallel to the street. There is a 20th-century single-storey extension at the rear of the right end, along with a three-window range of 20th-century casements and a 20th-century door. The side walls of the left house are weatherboarded.

Inside, there is structural evidence of a cross-wing at the left end and a main range to the right. In the 18th century, an extension was added to the rear of the left house, which involved raising the walls and re-roofing it on the current axis. The left wall of the cross-wing has heavy studding that is jointed and pegged, with the front left corner post mostly concealed in plaster. Two posts of the front wall have been scarfed about one metre below the 18th-century wallplate, which features a face-halved and bladed scarf. Some original framing remains in the rear wall. The house has a wide wood-burning hearth, with a mantel beam made from a reused 15th-century richly moulded timber, possibly from the dissolved Blackmore Priory, and a 20th-century grate facing to the right. The lower part of the stack dates from the 16th or early 17th century, while the upper part was rebuilt in the 18th century. In the right house, some original framing is visible in the rear wall, with girts jointed and double-pegged to a bay post. There is a 17th-century chamfered axial beam with three well-cut lamb's tongue stops, although the fourth stop is lost in sapwood. All joists in this section have been replaced. Both houses contain much reused medieval timber and are included for their group value.