27, Cricketers Lane

This is a late 17th-century house, extended in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed with weatherboard cladding and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The main range comprises two bays facing southwest, with an axial stack on the right side, originally part of a larger house that now incorporates number 25. A parallel rear range was built in the 18th century, and a small single-storey extension sits to the rear right. A double-range extension of one bay was added to the left around 1800, and is taller than the original structure, with a central stack.

The left section features a two-storey splayed bay with sash windows on both floors: ground floor sashes of 4+4, 6+6, and 4+4 lights, and first-floor sashes of 4+2, 6+3, and 4+2 lights. The right section has a similar two-storey splayed bay with sashes of 4+4, 6+6, and 4+4 lights on each floor, supplemented by additional sashes of 2+2 lights on the ground floor. A centrally located half-glazed door is set within a wooden doorcase featuring Ionic pilasters and a Chinese-style fretted frieze, topped by a later flat canopy supported by chamfered wooden posts. A hipped dormer contains an early 19th-century casement window. The rear elevation of the taller left section showcases a large horizontal sash window of 4+4 lights on the ground floor, and a sash of 6+6 lights on the first floor, both dating to around 1800. The remainder of the rear elevation has an early 19th-century sash of 8+8 lights, with other casements replacing earlier windows. Many windows contain handmade glass. The roof of the rear right range is hipped at the right end.

Attached to the left side of the rear extension is an early 19th-century pump with an embossed lead cistern featuring scrolls and paterae, a lead spout supported by wrought-iron stays, a rat-tail handle with a knob, and a wooden case. The pump's mechanism is complete but not functional.

Inside, both splayed bays and one rear first-floor sash have original vertically sliding internal shutters; the rear shutter is perforated with a heart. A straight staircase, also dating to around 1800, has a pine handrail and stick balusters, forming a U-shaped balustrade at the top. The front left ground-floor room features an Adam-style frieze; the rear right displays an arched recess with fluted pilasters and paterae. Above, an original cupboard with panelled doors on HL hinges, and original closet doors on cockshead hinges are present in the rear right and left rooms respectively. The front right ground-floor room has a chamfered transverse beam with long lamb's tongue stops and exposed plain joists, alongside a wide wood-burning hearth with a seat recess in the right jamb. The room above has an early/mid-19th-century cast-iron grate. The roof structure includes clasped purlins. The house retains numerous external and interior features from around 1800 and deserves careful conservation.