27 And 28, Chapel Lane

Nos 27 and 28 on Chapel Lane are a house that has been divided into two, dating from the 16th century and later. The building is timber framed, rendered, and features a brick plinth with a plaintile roof that has a long hip and a gablet on the right side. It consists of three cells and is one to two storeys high. There are single-storey extensions at the rear, built in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house has two rebuilt axial brick stacks, one serving the hall and a smaller one at the service end.

The entrance to both houses is through a pair of doors located in a 20th-century porch opposite the stack. To the left of the entrance, there is a single light casement window, and to the right, there are two timber casement windows, one with two lights and the other with three lights. Above the three-light window, there is a small paned single light beneath the eaves. The building also features two two-light timber casement dormers on the front and two similar dormers at the rear. Behind No 27, there is a long single-storey addition that has a 20th-century timber casement window, which was formerly a door. No 28 has a 20th-century wing at the rear and a small opening on the first floor of its return.

Inside No 27, there are two cells, and the stack is enclosed within a large kitchen range, with an intact bressumer. The interior features stop-chamfered beams and joists. The right-hand cell has a blocked doorway on the rear wall, and the stairs are located at the front of the stack. There was no access to the upper floor during the resurvey. No 28 consists of a single cell with a stop-chamfered axial beam, and its frame is concealed. The stairs are also at the front of the stack. The first-floor chamber has a plastered and roll-moulded tie beam and braces, with the ceiling sloping and the walls decorated with plaster fleur de lys and roses dating from around 1600. The cornice above wall plate height is moulded with a filleted ogee, and the tie beam does not rest on the posts, which are cut off by the stair, but lies between the bays.