Fish And Chips And Video Shop

Nos. 43 and 45, known as the Fish and Chips and Video Shop, are two shops with a dwelling above and behind, originally built as one house in the mid 16th century in two stages. The building has a two-cell plan and stands two storeys tall. It is timber-framed and encased at the front in 19th-century red brick, which is now painted. The roofs are pantiled; the left section was once thatched, while the right-hand roof was rebuilt to a lower pitch in the 19th century. There is a large axial chimney made of plastered brick. The windows are mainly from the mid to late 19th century, featuring cambered heads and large-pane sashes. There are two 20th-century half-glazed panelled doors in 19th-century openings. Inside, the heavy mid-16th-century framing is exposed in both two-bay cells, with the left possibly being the earlier section. The studwork is closely spaced, and the first-floor joists are large and unchamfered. The binding beam in the left-hand room has very broad bar-stops. In the right-hand room, there is a wide 16th-century lintelled open fireplace made with narrow buff bricks.