30 And 32, Church Street

The property comprises two houses at 30 and 32 Church Street. Dating to the late 16th century, the houses were rebuilt in the early 19th century and subsequently refurbished in the 20th century. The construction is timber framing, with plaster infill, some later brickwork, a peg and pantile roof, and red brick stacks. The plan is L-shaped, with a main street frontage and a large rear range that partially shares a boundary with Johnsons Yard to the east.

The front, south elevation features plastering with restored ashlar lining and coved eaves. Two similar units are present. There are early 20th-century three-cant bay windows extending through two stories. The doorway to number 30 has a flat cornice hood supported by brackets with molded and pulvinated jambs, a plain frieze, a six-panel door, and an adjacent boot scraper. The upper glazing of the bay window is arranged as 2x2 panes, while the lower portion is boarded. Number 32 features a similar configuration with 6-panel glazing. Cellar grilles and a window are located below the door and bay window respectively. The roof is peg-tiled, hipped at the east end, with an 18th-century stack at the west end. A single gabled 20th-century dormer window with shaped bargeboards and a two-light casement window (2x2 panes) is present on number 30.

The rear, north elevation of number 30 has a single-story slated outshut with 20th-century brickwork over 19th-century timber framing. It features a 20th-century door with upper glazing and a lower boarded section, alongside a two-light 20th-century casement window. The rear range of number 32 extends across the north side, featuring three 18th and 19th-century stacks, a peg-tiled section, and a pantiled section at the north end. The west side of number 32 has a ground-floor two-light casement window and a glazed porch with a four-panel door, including upper glazing. The first floor features casement windows, one single-light and one three-light. The west end of number 30 has three blocked window apertures. Close timber studding is visible on the ground floor wall of the carriageway of number 28. The east end of number 32 is integrated with numbers 34 and Johnsons Yard and includes two 20th-century casement windows (two and three lights) and a small brick addition.

Internally, number 30 retains a portion of the original heavy late 16th-century timber framing, extending originally east of the front door and then to the west end wall. A cranked internal tension brace is visible, along with mortices for a jowled post, a transverse tension brace, and a wattle groove. The roof structure includes trapped side purlins and cambered collars, with a stack on the west side. The interior of number 32 was not described.