Numbers 65, 65A And 65B And Outbuilding And Garden Walls To Rear

This is a former house, now a shop and flats, dating to the mid-16th century, with alterations in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is timber-framed, now rendered and stuccoed, with plain tile roofs. The building is of an "L" shape, with a three-story front range with a basement and a two-story rear range. The front range has a hipped roof, which slopes down to the rear, with a lower hipped roof forming a central range. The front has a stuccoed parapet with five recessed panels and molded cornices. The second floor features two nine-pane double-hung sash windows on either side of a central, similar window, distinguished by an eared architrave and a triple-stone keystone. The first floor has canted bays with parapets having recessed panels, a molded cornice, and double-hung sash windows with vertical glazing bars, centered by a similar window with a shouldered and eared architrave, a pediment, a triple-stone keystone, and a sill resting on consoles. A 20th-century shop front of hardwood with a large-pane window and fluted pilasters is present. The rear of the main range has a high parapet and molded cornice. Windows are a mix of 20th-century double-hung sashes and paired or single twelve-pane double-hung sashes. A two-story extension features a low-pitched lean-to roof. A semicircular arched opening frames a porch to an old rear door, which has margin glazing with some colored glass, a molded architrave enclosing a rectangular margin-glazed fan light. Two tall stacks of gault brick are on the back wall. A two-story rear range sits at a right angle to the front, with a half-hipped plain tile roof. The first floor is rendered and features one three-light leaded casement and two six-pane double-hung sashes on the north side. A six-raised and fielded panel front door and a wide carport with a lean-to pentice roof are on the front below. The west end of the first floor is now glazed with small-pane French windows and a balcony on painted timber posts. Red brick walls enclose the garden, and an intermediate cross wall has an elliptical arched opening with a wrought-iron gate. The interior of the main range is largely early 19th-century, with a staircase featuring columns over vase balusters and acorn finialled newels. At first-floor level, a semicircular landing arch has molded capitals on square pilasters. The rear range represents the truncated remains of a mid-16th century timber-framed building, now comprising three bays, originally five. It contains one large chamber on the first floor, jowled posts, internal wall bracing, and one four-light diamond mullioned window. The crown-post roof is single jowled, with single down braces to tie-beams, and large tie-beam arch braces. The ground floor structure has largely been replaced by brick, with one molded brick, likely from a corbel table, embedded in the wall. This structure was likely a commercial building.