13, Cricketers Lane

This is a small house attached to the northeast corner of the Green Man Inn. It was originally built in the early 15th century, with significant alterations in the 17th and 19th centuries. The house is constructed of timber framing and brick, with a steep peg-tiled, hipped roof featuring gablets on the east and west sides. The plan is rectangular, incorporating a half-length timber-framed out-shut on the north side, with the roof extending over as a catslide.

The north elevation, running east to west, has a rendered wall on the ground floor, along with a 19th-century casement window with glazing bars (2x2 panes) and a boarded door with a beaded edge. A brick corner pilaster strengthens this elevation. The west elevation has been restuccoed, featuring ground and first-floor 19th-century windows with bead moulding, each a two-leaved casement with glazing bars (4x3 panes). The east elevation has a lower portion of red brick, with a blocked first-floor window aperture. The south elevation is obscured by later building work.

The interior has been heavily plastered and the roof ceiled. However, the central truss, spanning two bays on the first floor (partially cut away for a door), retains features of interest. It has posts with short, pronounced jowls, and an elegant, arched brace rises from the south post fillet to a cambered tie-beam; all members are carefully chamfered. Blocked mortices on the ground floor indicate the presence of small arched braces from the storey posts to the binding joist. Peg evidence indicates a stud frequency of approximately 0.64 meters between centres. A 17th-century timber lintelled fireplace has been inserted on the south side. The central truss storey post now sits on the lintel beam. A primary braced system has been introduced, along with partitions on both floors to create front and back rooms; ground floor partitions extend to the rear, while a first-floor partition is located on the central truss. Wide floorboards (up to 0.5 meters wide) are present in the front bay of the first floor and may be original.

The building appears to be a cross-wing of a medieval hall house, likely the "high" end, with the hall originally located on the south side. Evidence suggests there were previously windows on the exposed north side. The rear units of the Green Man Inn appear to follow the shape of an "H" hall house with a further cross-wing, now brick but containing 17th-century timber framing. It was previously suggested that this building may have been a detached kitchen; however, the clean and un-sooted exposed timber interior casts doubt on this theory. The building has settled at both the east and west ends, which likely prompted the replacement brickwork. The front west bay is shorter than the back and was probably originally jettied, being reconstructed to a shorter ground floor length. The hip of the west front roof was likely built at the same time. Number 13 forms a visual group with Number 11, the Green Man Inn.