46, Bell Street

46 Bell Street is a 16th-century timber-framed and plastered house featuring a bracketed jetty at the first floor along the street front. The building has two storeys and two windows, topped with a gabled old red tile roof. The ground floor east flank wall is now constructed in old English bond brickwork. In 1970, the front and roof were stripped, revealing heavy close studding on both floors. The structure has two bays, with the west bay being shorter, and includes a purlin roof with wind bracing and heavy tension bracing at the front, halved over the outer faces of the studs. Wattle and daub panels with ancient pargetting are present between the studs, featuring triple lines and triple holes. There is evidence of two projecting oriel windows of equal size in the positions of the existing first-floor windows, which are early 18th-century, three-light and four-light wooden casements with diamond leaded panes. An internal gable stack is located at the east side of the larger bay. The current pargetting is panelled to follow the lines of structural members around the windows. The ground floor has a 19th-century four-panel flush door and a small boarded and ledged window shutter. A modern shop window has replaced a 19th-century one of the same size.