62-65, EAST STREET

A range of shops and houses dating to the mid 14th century (No. 63), the late 15th century (Nos. 64 and 65), and the early 17th century (No. 62). The properties were combined into a single building in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with subsequent alterations. The building has rendered and colourwashed timber frame construction, and a plaintile roof.

The plan reflects the origins as fragments of larger houses, none of which retain their original layout. The exterior is two storeys, with a five-window range. The central element has a triple-gabled design with jettied first floors. No. 62, on the right, has brick underbuilding with a five-panelled door (the upper panel glazed) and a two-over-two horned sash window to its right. The remainder of the ground floor has two early 20th-century shop display windows, each with a double-leaf half-glazed door. The first floor has four two-over-two horned sash windows; the window to the right has six panes in the lower sash leaf. A stack is located to the right of the centre on the rear roof slope. No. 65 features an early 20th-century ground-floor display window and a glazed door to the right. The upper floor has full-height glazing with glazing bars. The rear elevation has four gables, along with 20th-century extensions of various heights, random placement of 20th-century metal windows, and a first-floor loading door.

The interior of No. 62 features a mid-19th century stick-baluster staircase with a turned newel and ramped handrail, and four-panelled internal doors. The east ground-floor room has plank wall lining on two walls. A rear room has been extended to the north under a rolled steel joist. A first-floor frame has large arched braces to the rear wall, and the rooms contain plank doors. The roof is a butt-purlin construction, single tier, with straight windbraces. Nos. 63 and 64 now form the sales area, with the interiors opened into single spaces, though side studwork remains visible. A winder staircase is present in the west wall. The roof of No. 63 is a mid-14th century crown post roof with two bays, the central post missing; fragments of crown purlin are carried on arched braces. No. 64 has a late 15th century crown post roof with two bays, featuring chamfered square crown posts, a crown purlin supported on arched braces, a cambered main tie beam on knuckle braces. No. 65 formerly had a ground-floor carriageway with central and end studs terminating with solid arched braces. The roof is a two-bay crown post type with square section posts, slight upper and lower chamfers, supporting a crown purlin on arched braces.