31, Church Street

31 Church Street is a house that has been converted into a wine bar and lettable rooms. It dates from the 16th century and late 18th century. The building features a timber frame with a red Flemish-bond brick front and a gabled roof made of machine-made clay plain tiles. It is two storeys high with attics and has a parallel, two-storey gambrel-roofed and rendered range at the rear.

The front exterior includes three flat-roofed dormers with casement windows set behind a plain parapet. On the first floor, there is a three-window arrangement of recessed double-hung sash windows with small panes, topped with flat rubbed brick arches. The ground floor features a central semicircular-arched door opening with a fanlight that has curved subdivisions. To one side, there is a 20th-century imitation of an early 19th-century shop front with pilasters, large panes, and a flat cornice hood. A matching double-hung sash window is located to the northeast. The building has a black tarred plinth, moulded brick coping, and a cast-iron inset boot scraper.

Inside, the structure reveals two bays of long-wall jetty type 16th-century timber framing, likely representing the hall/chamber and solar/service areas. The interior includes plain oak joists with soffit tenons and diminished haunches that connect to very deep, flat chamfered spine beams. The first floor and attic feature exposed framing, with bridging joists made of one oak and one pine, both having quadrant-moulded chamfers. There are remnants of a former crown post, including two posts and a length of collar purlin, although the braces are missing.