7, Rowans Way

No. 7 Rowans Way is a house built in the early 16th and 17th centuries, with significant alterations made in the early 19th century. The structure features a combination of timber framing and brickwork, with sections that are stuccoed, weatherboarded, and painted brick, topped by a slate roof. The oldest part of the house is a two-bay crosswing that is jettied to the southwest, dating back to the early 16th century, which was originally part of a medieval hall that extended to the northeast. There is an external chimney stack on the northeast side of the southeast bay, dating from the late 16th century. An extension to the southwest of the southeast bay was added in the 17th century, along with further extensions to the southwest and west, creating a fashionable early 19th-century facade with chimney stacks on both sides.

The house has three storeys. The ground floor features a central six-panel door with glazed top panels, fluted pilasters, and a shallow hood, all from the early 19th century. There are two bays of double-hung sash windows with a tiled canopy spanning the entire front, dating from the 19th or early 20th century. On the first floor, there are two double-hung sash windows with 16 lights, dating from the 20th century, which have shallow hoods and a rectangular recess between them, with a string course above. The second floor has three double-hung sash windows with six lights, which are early 19th century and reproductions. The roof is hipped with a shallow pitch, featuring projecting eaves and paired brackets, also from the early 19th century. The crownpost roof has a plain crownpost with axial braces only.

The earliest part of the building was originally part of a 'Unit System' group with No. 53 Traps Hill, which is noted as the first identified example of this system in Essex, as documented in K. L. Sandall's work on the subject.