4 And 5, Clay End

4 and 5 Clay End is a house that has been converted into two separate homes. It dates back to the 16th century or earlier and was renovated in the mid-19th century in the Gothick style. The building features a timber frame covered in roughcast and has a steep hipped roof with gablets, made of old red tiles. It is two storeys high and has four windows facing west, with No 4 on the south side occupying the lower bay of the hall and the service end.

Each half of the house has a wide 19th-century Tudor arched doorway with a battened door. The windows are three-light cast iron flush lattice casements, and there is a half-octagonal bay window to the left of the door for No 5, as well as a shallow rectangular hipped bay window for No 4. The building has an external rear chimney with two tall octagonal shafts, a similar pair on the central chimney built in the upper bay of the hall, and a large three-shaft external chimney at the north end. Parts of the chimneys were rebuilt in grey brick in the mid-19th century.

Inside, the house features heavy jowled posts, very heavy cambered tie-beams that are chamfered with hollow stops, and close-studding in the rear wall. The floor has chamfered joists inserted in the hall, and there are straight tension braces in the close-studded partition at the lower end of the hall. The hall wallplate includes an edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts. The roof is a clasped-purlin type with curved wind-braces exposed in the upper chambers. This building may have originally served as the rectory house before being replaced by a new one in the High Street in 1632.