13, King's Head Street

No. 13 King's Head Street is a house dating from the early 17th century. It features a timber-framed and plastered rear with stained weatherboarding, and it stands three storeys high with attics and cellars beneath a gabled plain clay tile roof.

The front of the house has jettied sections on each floor, with 19th-century painted timber fascias. The second floor includes two metal casement windows, each with six horizontal panes. On the first floor, there are two double-hung sash windows with small panes, while the ground floor has two square double-hung sash windows with small panes and an off-centre 20th-century hardwood door with an eared architrave. A large rectangular 19th-century chimney stack is located against the southeast flank and is partly rendered.

At the rear, there is a three-storey stained weatherboarded stair tower with an asymmetrical gable. Projecting from the back is a two-storey timber-framed extension with rendered walls and a gabled peg tile roof, along with a clay pantiled roofed lean-to. There is also a larger extension with a concrete pantile roof and a single-storey outhouse. The building is notable for its two-bay timber frame, featuring stop-chamfered corner posts and chamfered spine beams.

Inside, the ground floor has a central partition with pieces of old panelling forming one side of the cross passage leading to the rear stair tower. In the northwest corner, against the rear wall, there is a 17th-century stack with later fireplaces. The second floor features a central bridging joist supported on inward-facing jowls. The stair tower includes a short length of balustrade with turned balusters. The roof comprises five bays with two joggled purlins in each bay and single curved collars. The south gable is a masonry structure acting as a fire wall, now rendered. A 19th-century corner cupboard with serpentine shelves is found in the rear ground-floor room. The cellar retains the original bridging joist, spine beams, and some square section joists with soffit tenoned joists that have diminished haunches. There is a halved and bridled scarf joint in the rear plate. Contrary to local belief, all three floors appear to be from a single build. A cast-iron 19th-century yard pump is located against the rear flank, which was used for former rainwater drainage.