Lower House And The Stores

Lower House and The Stores is a house and shop that dates from the early to mid 16th century and consists of two separate builds. The structure is timber framed and rendered, topped with plaintile roofs. The shop and store form a two-bay range, while the Lower House features a two-bay crosswing. The late 19th-century shop front has central glazed doors flanked by windows with glazing bars, some of which are made of brass, all beneath a cornice. On the first floor, there are two horned sash windows with four panes each. The Lower House has a door set back under a jetty that exposes the stud of the framework, and there is one ground and first floor six-paned horned sash window.

Inside, the first floor of the stores has two former diamond mullion windows at the front and one at the rear, which have grooves for shutters. A four-centre arched doorway that was originally between the two builds has been reset in a 20th-century rear wing. There is a chamfered bridging joist across the ground floor of the crosswing. The stores are said to have a clasped purlin roof that replaced a crownpost roof, of which the tie beam and square post in the gable still survive. The crosswing features a side purlin roof.