Spar Food Store

The Spar Food Store, originally a terrace of cottages, is a shop that likely began as a single house built in two stages. The right section features a jettied cross-wing from the late 14th or early 15th century, while the left side has an open hall with a storeyed bay dating from the late 15th or early 16th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with plaintiled roofs. It has 19th-century small-pane casements, and beneath the jetty, there is a canted bay shop window. The mid-20th-century wooden shop front includes glazed doors. The cross wing retains much of its framing from the first floor upwards, although the roof was renewed in the 19th century, and the upper wall features widely-spaced tension-braced studwork. The hall range has similar wall framing, though it is less complete, with remnants of a smoke-blackened plain crown-pose roof that was almost entirely rebuilt in the 19th century. Significant alterations were made to the ground storey, including a flat-roofed rear extension around 1970.