133, THE STREET

No 133 on The Street is a house built in two stages: a mid-16th century open hall and an early 17th century parlour block. The building has one storey with attics and two storeys with attics. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure; the hall on the right was partially rebuilt in 19th century red brick, which is now painted. The hall has a thatched roof with one eyebrow casement dormer, while the parlour block has a pantiled roof. A gable was added to the parlour block in the mid-19th century to create the appearance of a crosswing.

There is an axial chimney made of red brick, with the shaft rebuilt in the 19th century in the Helmingham Estate style. The building has various small-pane casements, mainly from the 19th century. The entrance door is boarded and features a small gabled porch from the 20th century. The open hall is modest and has been greatly altered; it includes an open truss with a tie-beam showing evidence of long arch-braces. The roof is smoke-blackened with coupled rafters and unusually slender pole rafters.

In the early 17th century, the original service cell was demolished and replaced with the parlour block, which has chamfered floor-joists laid flat, close-studding with evidence for glazed windows, and a clasped-purlin roof. The building also features altered back-to-back open fireplaces, one with an ovolo-moulded lintel, and a newel staircase in two flights. The hall was partitioned at the open truss and floored over, with a new cross-entry that is now blocked, and the right-hand bay becoming a service cell.