11-21, Bridewell Street

This is a range of six houses at 11-21 Bridewell Street, Wymondham, rebuilt after a fire in 1616. The buildings are of rendered and whitewashed timber frame construction, with two differing roof pitches. The houses at 11-15 have roofs covered in red pantiles, while those at 17-21 have black glazed pantiles.

Number 11 has an underbuilt jetty and a room above a carriage entrance to the left. It features a 20th-century half-glazed door with a window to its right and two late 18th-century two-light casement windows on the first floor. The gabled roof has one dormer window and a ridge stack. Numbers 13-15 have a central pair of heavy panelled doors flanked by 19th-century horned sash windows on either side. The first floor is jettied, with three similar sash windows above. A gabled dormer window is present in the roof, and there's an internal gable-end stack marking the division of the roof pitches. Numbers 17-19 are arranged in three bays, with two panelled doors positioned to the left of centre, accompanied by an early 19th-century sash window to their left and two similar windows to their right, all with glazing bars. The jettied first floor is lit by a similar, smaller sash window to the right and two late 18th-century three-light casements to the left. The gabled roof has a ridge stack right of centre. The east gable wall was rebuilt in the early 19th century and features a fluted pilaster doorcase supporting a flat hood. Rear outshuts date to the early 19th century.

Inside, the bridging beams are primarily of the sunk-quadrant type, with a beam in number 21 exhibiting roll mouldings and rolled soffit indents. Winder staircases are positioned by the stacks. The structure reveals jowled principal studs and corner tension braces. The roof is constructed with two tiers of purlins—the lower butted and the upper clasped by cambered collars.