26 Church Street

26 Church Street is a house dating from around 1500 and the late 16th century. It features a timber frame with a rendered brick front and roofs made of concrete pantiles, showcasing two distinct ridge lines.

The building has two storeys and a long rear extension with a gabled roof covered in peg tiles, along with a shorter two-storey section that has a slate roof. The front elevation includes a parapet and a raised band above the first-floor window heads. There are three double-hung sash windows with small panes and a blind window screen on the first floor. The ground floor features two similar windows, a garage door, and a recessed entrance with a six-panel door, which is adorned with an early 19th-century moulded architrave and flat hood. The passage door has four panels and a fanlight. The flanks of the rear extension display 20th-century pargeting, likely a replica of a former design. One side of the front range is a single bay of a long wall jetty house from the late 15th or early 16th century. One flank truss is closed but has a former central door opening on the first floor, while the other flank was 'open' with arch braces to tie beams. The roof is of the crown post type and may still partially exist.

At the rear, there is a late 16th-century two-storey timber frame structure with three bays, which was formerly jettied at the west end and features a framed bressumer with a large quadrant moulding.

Inside, the west bay contains a small chamber on each floor, with the upper chamber showcasing unusual internal wall bracing that curves from the wall posts and stops at a stud. The 'tye' beams are tenoned into the top plates, and the roof is largely contemporary with simple collar rafter couples. A frieze window with three lights remains on the flank wall of the larger first-floor chamber. The entrance hall features an early 19th-century arch on shaped corbels with a dentilled soffit.