14, 15 AND 16, CHURCH STREET

14, 15 and 16 Church Street is a house that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates from the late medieval period, with elements from the 17th century and early 19th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a clay plain tile roof. It has two storeys, attics, and cellars.

The front features two hipped dormers with double-hung sash windows that have small panes. There is a projecting painted timber cornice that conceals the gutter, adorned with a frieze of small arches. The first floor has four irregularly spaced flush double-hung sash windows, also with small panes, and a panelled plaster treatment. The ground floor includes three shop-like windows, one of which is curved and recessed, all featuring small panes. There are two entrance doors with early 19th-century flat hoods, each having two flush panels above four raised-and-fielded panels.

At the rear, there are two linked extensions, both two storeys high with attics, gabled in clay plain tiles, one being an extension of an earlier projection. The gables are finished with black weatherboarding. A large brick stack rises from the junction of the northernmost extension and the main roof.

Inside, some late medieval framing is exposed, indicating it was likely an open hall house with a formerly jettied cross wing to the northwest. This area had a central partition with doors at the outer edges, combining parlour and service spaces. The eaves height was raised in the early 17th century, and a large room that spans parts of Nos. 14 and 15 features a trabeated plaster ceiling decorated with roses, fleurs-de-lys, circular pendants, and foliage. The northwestern extension is contemporary and has a similar ceiling. The southern flank wall retains remnants of a former four-light window, with mullion mortices that include a circular hole and a small rectangular hole.

There is an unpainted Chinese Chippendale dogleg staircase and some 17th-century panelling in both units. On the ground floor of No. 14, there is a reused 17th-century bressumer with a quadrant profile, decorated with a continuous foliage pattern. In the centre, there is a shield-like motif with the date 1606 and the initial 'S' superimposed, along with the initials 'TE' below, likely indicating it was a former jetty bressumer.