The Fleece And Number 65

The Fleece and Number 65 are two dwellings, one of which is a public house. The building has a late medieval core with a mid-16th century addition and alterations from the 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered in panels, with a roof made of concrete pantiles. The structure is a single long range, standing two storeys high with an attic. It features various casement windows, mostly from the 19th century, including a range of six on the upper floor. The Fleece has a 20th-century semi-glazed door with a bracketed hood, while Number 65 has a plank door.

Inside, there is a central internal stack with a plain axial shaft, along with another axial-shafted stack to the left and a small stack against the right gable end. There is a late 19th-century full-height addition on the left gable end, which has a chamfered front corner, constructed of red brick with gault brick dressings and inset sash windows.

The interior of the earlier work to the right of the stack includes a hall range that partly extends into Number 69, where the timbers are concealed. The section in The Fleece has a low ceiling supported by heavy plain joists and features an intact open fireplace with a 19th-century oven and copper. This part was raised approximately 1.2 meters in the 17th century, with the old wallplate now only visible at the rear. The roof has clasped purlins. To the left of the stack, there is a two-bay hall and a one-bay service cell. The hall contains a moulded main beam, joists, and a mid-rail, although the joists in the upper bay were damaged by fire in the mid-20th century. The open fireplace in the hall has a replacement lintel. The service end has closely spaced heavy plain joists, with evidence of an axial partition, while the cross partition with the hall has been removed. Most of the timbers on the upper floor are concealed, and the roof appears to have been reconstructed later, possibly in the 18th century.