79-83, THE STREET

This is a house, divided into three cottages, dating to the late 18th century with an earlier core from the 17th century. It is built of timber framing and brick, with a roof covered in red and glazed black pantiles. The original plan was three rooms wide, with later 18th-century partitions and a staircase added. The front facade is brick, dating to the late 18th century, and is five bays wide, with two storeys and attics. The windows are three-light casements set within rubbed brick arches. The doorcases have pilasters and plain cornices to the second and fourth bays, with six-panel doors and overlights containing a single vertical glazing bar, and reveal panelling. Brick pilasters flank the doorways, rising to the eaves, with paired pilasters at the corners. A 20th-century doorway and window have been inserted into the right-hand bay, also under a 18th-century brick arch. The first floor has five casements, those above the doors being of two lights. There is a decorative sawtooth dentil cornice to the eaves. Three attic casements are present, two with leaded lights and one from the 20th century. A gable-end stack and a large axial stack are visible. The left-hand gable wall is of early 17th-century brick in English bond and has a platband. Two attic lights have chamfered reveals, and there is some crow-stepping to the rear gable. The right-hand gable wall is brick to the eaves. A two-storey brick range to the rear is dated BW 1781. Internally, some of the original timber framing is visible. The left-hand house has transverse beams with ovolo moulding and bar-stops to the ground and first floor rooms. It contains a brick fireplace with a four-centred arch and moulded reveal, as well as a geometrical plaster ceiling. The central house features a painted masonry fireplace to the upper floor, with a four-centred arch and chamfer with bar-stops, along with arched braces between stud and wall plate. The roofs of all three houses have butt-purlins, curved wind braces, and cambered tie-beams.