The Old Stores

The Old Stores is a house with a former shop, now divided into two dwellings. It dates from the mid-17th century and was extended and partly rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building features a timber frame, with extensions made of clay lump and white brick, and is largely plastered. The roofs are thatched, with black glazed and red pantiles.

Originally, the structure was likely a small L-shaped plan with three cells, including a parlour at the rear that was rebuilt in the 19th century, along with additions to the service end. The building has one storey and an attic, as well as two storeys. The entrance is located to the left of the centre, featuring an architraved 4:4 pane sash window to the left and two 3-light glazing bar casements with cornices to the right, one of which is part of an early one-storey clay lump and pantiled addition.

There are two 2-light gabled dormers in the steeply pitched roof, which has a hip to the left return. This return features a pantiled lean-to outshut with a boarded door and a 2-light casement window at the front. A white brick axial ridge stack is located on the returned bay at the junction with the clay lump brick-faced parlour bay, which is two storeys high and includes a ground floor conservatory and a first floor sash window on the return. The shallow pitch of the pantiled roof has a gable at the rear, with a lean-to projection from the inner return that includes 1 and 2-light glazing bar casements.

The main range at the rear has early pantiled lean-to outshuts. Projecting from the service end extension is a 19th-century former shop lean-to, made of rendered brick, which includes an entrance and a 3-light casement window. Inside, much of the framing is concealed, but there are passing tension braces, bar and triangle stop-chamfered axial and cross axial binding beams, and a fireplace bressumer.