96 And 98, Station Road

The property comprises two houses, 96 and 98 Station Road, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with later 18th-century additions and alterations. Number 98 is a roughly 1½-story house situated at a right angle to the road, facing east. Number 96 is an early 18th-century two-story house built parallel to the road and facing north. A single-bay, half-hipped extension was added to the south end of the earlier house in the 18th century, and a further two-story extension was added to the west end of Number 96 in the mid-18th century, featuring a tiled roof. The majority of the roofs are thatched.

The building exhibits timber framing from three distinct periods. While generally plastered, sections of weatherboarding are visible on the south end of Number 98, the west end of Number 96, and the ground floor front of Number 96 to the west of the central, tiled-roof lean-to porch. A significant internal chimney stack is located at the junction of the two houses. A former internal gable stack is present at the west end of the thatched, older part of Number 96.

The north front of the thatched section of Number 96 is symmetrical, with two windows on each floor. The first floor windows are 3-light wooden mullioned windows with horizontal glazing bars inserted into the side lights; the central light is wider and features a metal casement with a small fixed light above. A sun firemark, lacking a numbered label, is positioned centrally above the upper windows. The ground floor has flush box sash windows with 10/10 panes, displayed under plaster drip moulds. The west extension of Number 96 has a central ground floor door that has been adapted into a two-light casement window with four panes. The west end of this extension features a 18th-century mullioned wooden window with an iron opening frame and rectangular leaded glazing on the first floor, alongside a ground floor door.

The east front of Number 98 is characterized by a steep, thatched roof with overhanging eaves. Two small, two-light eaves dormers are set into the wall plate under the thatch. All windows on this front have rectangular leaded glazing. The arrangement includes two, three-light mullioned wooden windows of differing heights, with central iron opening lights flanking a plank entrance door below a drip board. A similar plank door leads to a half-hipped 18th-century storage bay near the south end.

The interior of Number 98 features an inserted floor structure and a clasped purlin roof with wind braces and A-frame trusses. Within Number 96, exposed studs, beams, and joists are visible, along with a staircase located at the west gable stack. The building is a picturesque grouping of thatched buildings with three periods of timber framing, forming part of a larger picturesque grouping on the south side of Station Road.