17 And 19, Marshland Street

A pair of attached houses, likely dating from the mid to late 17th century, with 19th-century alterations. The houses are constructed of red brick in both English and Flemish bonds, featuring moulded plinth strings and brick modillion eaves. They have pantile roofs with moulded brick corbels on the gable ends, and brick gable and axial stacks. Originally planned as a single house, it was subsequently divided into two, with the first floor of the right-hand (northern) end partly rebuilt in the 19th century.

The east front has an asymmetrical arrangement of three bays on the left and two bays on the right, with gables over the two right-hand bays. There is a heavy moulded brick string course at first-floor level. The windows are 19th-century wooden mullion windows, with two and three lights, metal casements, and small panes, set within cambered arch openings. Doorways are located centrally and on the right, both with cambered arches and panelled and glazed doors; the right-hand door has an open wooden lattice porch with a tented canopy. A moulded brick string course is visible in the south gable end, and at first-floor level at the rear. A 17th-century three-light ovolo moulded wood mullion window is found at the rear of the left-hand house (No. 17) on the first floor.

The interior of No. 17 was inspected and reveals a smaller room on the left and a larger room on the right. These rooms have chamfered cross-beams with hollow step stops at one end, unchamfered joists, and blocked fireplaces. A tie-beam is exposed on the first floor, although the roof structure above has been replaced in the 20th century. The property is said to have originally been called Howard's Manor.