1, The Street

1 The Street is a house dating from the 16th century, built in two stages and remodelled in the mid-19th century. It has two storeys and features three windows, including a central dummy window, facing The Street, while a rear range of three windows looks onto Rags Lane. The house is timber-framed, with the front elevation encased in 19th-century gault brick. The gable facing Rags Lane and the rear wing are both plastered, with the rear wing showing exposed close-studding. The ground storey wall has been pushed forward to create a flush facade, but exposed joist-ends indicate that the wing originally had a long-wall jetty. The roof is slated, likely originally plain-tiled. There are three detached, diagonally-set square chimneys from the late 16th or early 17th century. The mid-19th-century windows have flat arches made of gauged brick and small-pane sashes; to the left, there is a flat-roofed bay with twin sashes. The front range was originally built with a jetty at the first floor on two sides, with a dragon beam remaining as evidence of this. The roof structure features clasped purlins.