The Stores

The Stores is a house with a shop, dating from the late 16th century, with a front range added in the late 17th century. It was brick-cased in the 18th century and extended and altered in the 19th century. The building is timber-frame with red brick casing, plastered and colourwashed. It has steeply pitched plain-tiled and pantiled roofs. The original core is likely three or four bays, with its original gable end to the road now incorporated into a broad three-cell lobby entry front range, with a 19th-century bay added to the left. The building is two storeys and an attic, with the earlier bays to the rear being one storey and an attic.

On the ground floor, there is a part-glazed, part raised six-panelled architraved door with a cambered brick head, forming a lobby entrance to the left of centre; flanking this are three-light glazing bar casements, architraved with cambered heads. There is an offset plinth, a plat band stopped to accommodate a shop to the right, with a half-glazed door, a traceried fanlight, and flanking projecting canted bay shop windows with a fascia board. The first floor has three three-light architraved glazing bar casements. Blocked windows are located above the entrance and in the right gable. Originally, the front had a triple gabled form, with the centre gable removed. An axial ridge stack is located to the left of centre, between the hall and parlour, with a rebuilt cap.

Attached to the left is a 19th-century bay with a shallower roof, incorporating a flint and brick lean-to projection to the front. The right gable end has a plat band and blocked windows. Extending to the rear is a core from the early part of the house, with a steeper roof pitch and lower eaves. Lean-to outshuts are on both returns, with 20th-century casements and dormers. A slate roof covers the lean-to on the left. A rear gable end has an external stack with a pantiled brick oven outshuts, an attic two-light casement, exposed moulded plate, and double purlins. A 19th-century bay to the rear has an entrance and two and three-light segmental headed casements.

Inside, much of the timber frame is concealed. The earlier bays contain a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, and arched braces in the walling. The front range features ogee stop-chamfered axial binding beams and a double staggered tenoned purlin roof.