Street House

Street House is a farmhouse dating from around 1600, possibly earlier, with later additions. It is constructed of timber box-frame with close studding, sitting on a low brick plinth. Externally, the frame is concealed with plaster except for the front elevation, which is cased in 19th-century brick. The building is of one and a half storeys under a plain tiled pitched roof, originally thatched.

The house is arranged in four units, two on either side of a massive central brick chimney stack. The entrance is positioned at the front of this stack, providing a lobby entry plan. A second lateral brick chimney stack serves the south-east rooms. The front elevation faces the lane and comprises a centrally placed panelled door aligned with the chimney stack, flanked by two windows. All three are three-light casements with multiple leaded panes. A hound's tooth eaves course runs above them. The upper floor contains two dormer windows with two-light casements. All windows are 19th or 20th century replacements.

To the rear, the pitched roof was converted to a catslide roof when an outshut or aisle was added, probably in the 18th century. This outshut extends along most of the rear of the building, excluding the northernmost bay.

Internally, much of the original timber box-frame remains exposed, including wall-plates, corner posts, tension braces and studs. The massive central brick stack contains back-to-back inglenooks. The kitchen inglenook is wider to accommodate a bake oven, though the back of the oven has been removed. The former parlour inglenook has a substantial bressumer with runout and bar chamfer stops. The ceiling contains bridging beams with step and runout chamfer stops, which continue into the adjoining room, which retains its original fireplace.

The outshut to the rear contains the rear hall, staircase and a store formerly used as a cellar. One wall retains re-used 17th-century panelling. A narrow door with similar panelling provides access to the main parlour from the outshut and appears to have been inserted into the original rear wall. Where enclosed by the outshut, the timber-framing of this former exterior wall is exposed. At ground-floor level, close studding and tension bracing are visible. Overlooking the staircase is a four-light timber mullioned window with diamond stanchions, which ceased to function as a window when the outshut was built against the rear wall.

Originally the farmhouse to Street Farm, Street House was converted into the Kings Head public house in the mid-19th century. It continued in this use until the mid-20th century before being converted back into a house. An 1843–1894 Ordnance Survey map marks it as part of Street Farm and appears to show the house divided into two, with the smaller left-hand block possibly functioning as a separate cottage.