17, Silver Street

17 Silver Street is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier. It is timber-framed and rendered, featuring two parallel ranges of plain tile roof, and it abuts No. 15 to the south-west. The building has two storeys and a cellar, with a two-window range on the front. The exterior includes a plain timber-framed parapet with moulded coping and 20th-century pargeting. On the first floor, there are 12-pane sash windows with moulded surrounds, while the ground floor features an early 19th-century slightly bowed 16-pane window. The doorcase is contemporary, with a projecting moulded hood supported by thin pilasters, and there is a 20th-century six-panel door. The flank of the building has two 16-pane sash windows with moulded surrounds on the first floor, and the ground floor has two similar windows, a cellar entrance accessed by steps, and a 20th-century door in a moulded surround. At the rear, there is a single-storey 20th-century extension made of brick with a plain tile gabled roof. Inside, remnants of a cross-wing suggest it was part of an open-halled house that included Nos. 13, 15, and 17. This section was extended to the north-west with good quality softwood framing, likely from the 18th century, and features spine beams with bowtell chamfer. The large cellar has sections with a brick barrel-vault.