8, Freshwell Street

No. 8 Freshwell Street is a house dating from around 1550, with an extension added around 1800 into adjacent outbuildings of Freshwell House, and further additions made in 1973. The building features a timber frame that is plastered over a flint panel and brick dwarf wall, with roofs covered in peg tiles, slate, and clay tiles, and a brick stack. The structure has a U-shaped plan that includes a street range and 20th-century rear additions.

It stands two storeys tall. The front southeast elevation has two taller units to the northwest, with a stack, and a lower range that connects with the adjacent outbuilding, which is also peg-tiled. The plaster on this elevation shows remnants of ashlar lining. The front has an irregular arrangement of two windows, a central doorway with a 20th-century hood supported by brackets, and a 20th-century boarded door. To the southwest, there is a 19th-century sash window with glazing bars arranged in 2x4 panes. To the northeast, there is a 19th-century sliding sash window with glazing bars in 6x4 panes. On the first floor, each unit has one sliding sash window with glazing bars in 6x3 panes.

The rear northwest elevation features ground floor additions to each unit, with roofs of slate and clay tiles on the larger and smaller units, respectively. The first floor exposes timber framing. There are two 20th-century two-light casement windows with glazing bars in 4x2 panes, and a 20th-century single-light casement window at the northern end. The ground floor includes a 20th-century pargetted small three-cant bay with a fully glazed 20th-century French window, along with three 20th-century two-light casement windows with glazing bars, two with 2x3 panes and one with 4x3 panes.

Inside, the larger northeast unit from around 1550 features heavy ground floor ceiling joists with stop-chamfered edges and diminished haunched soffit tenons, along with a window shutter groove facing the street. The first floor has an internal tension-braced frame with jowled posts and a tie-beam, which was once arched braced. There is also later primary braced framing in the end walls. The southwest room has a jettied framing from around 1800 that extends into the adjoining outbuildings.