38, 40 AND 42, THE STREET

38, 40, and 42 The Street is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with an earlier 16th-century wing. The building is constructed of brick, while the earlier section is made of flint with reused stone quoins. It has a black pantile roof and originally functioned as a 'U' plan house before being divided into three cottages, each with two storeys and attics.

The eastern front features a central block (No 40) flanked by wings (No 38 to the north and No 42 to the south). The cottages have brick plinths and a plat-band string course at the first floor and attics, with gables that include kneelers and tumbling. No 38 displays purlin irons with the initials CT, indicating Sir Charles Turner, the Lord of the Manor who died in 1780. No 42 has a central brick finial at the apex of its gable.

The eastern gable of No 38 has a blank ground floor, a first floor with a filled-in window embrasure, and an attic featuring a two-light casement with 19th-century cast iron glazing bars. The eastern gable of No 42 includes a 20th-century window on the ground floor and a 19th-century two-light casement on the first floor, with glazing bars that break through the attic plat-band.

On the eastern front of No 40, there are two three-light casements with cast iron glazing bars on the ground floor, set under rubbed brick cambered arches, and two identical casements at the first floor under wooden lintels. To the left, there is an 18th-century door with eight raised and fielded panels, the lower four arranged in a St Andrew's cross. The north return of the south wing (No 42) features an 18th-century door with six raised and fielded panels, made with reused 17th-century door jambs.

The rear facade includes a central two-storey stair tower with kneelers and tumbling to the gable. Inside No 38, there are indications of 16th or early 17th-century features, such as two four-centred stone fire surrounds with chamfered reveals and stops on the first floor and attic. The ground floor has crudely chamfered principal beams. No 40 contains 17th-century principal beams with stops on the ground floor, along with 17th and 18th-century doors and panelling. The 17th-century roof structure, featuring butt purlins, collars, and wind bracing, is shared by all three cottages, with No 38's roof raised above the earlier roof line.