40 And 42, Fore Street

Nos 40 and 42 on Fore Street in Old Hatfield are a pair of former houses, likely built in the 15th century, originally known as the Rose and Crown Inn. These two-storey, timber-framed buildings are roughcast with plain tile gable-ended roofs, with the right-hand end being slightly higher. They feature jettied upper floors, and the ground floor of the right house is partly weatherboarded.

No 40 has a half-glazed door and a 19th-century shop window on the right, while its first floor has a Yorkshire casement window. No 42 has modern Yorkshire casement windows on the first floor. Inside, the buildings reveal exposed wall framing and a blocked window with diamond mullions in the western party wall. There is a timber window stair next to a later central stack, with an additional later stack located on the rear wall.