Farthings

Farthings is a building that was likely originally a single house, now divided into two properties, dating from the early 15th century and 16th century, constructed in three phases. It features a timber frame with plastered walls. No. 13 has exposed studding on the upper floor with two blocked window openings and a shallow-pitched pantiled roof from the 18th or 19th century. The building consists of three cells and is two storeys high, with a continuous jetty to the street supported by original brackets. No. 13 displays exposed joist-ends and a bressummer. The windows are casements from the late 19th and 20th centuries, and there are three matching cross windows on the ground floor. No. 11 has a boarded and battened door likely from the 17th century, while No. 13 features a four-panel door and a plank door to the extreme right. Internally, there is an internal stack with a rendered shaft, an external gable stack to the left set forward of the roof ridge, and a small one-storey addition beyond.

Inside No. 11, there is an early 15th-century service cell that was originally a cross-wing, and an early to mid-16th-century hall that replaced earlier medieval work. The service cell includes a cross-entry, with half of the original two-centre arched doorway visible in the front wall, and joists showing evidence of partitions and service doorways. The remains of the original screen to the former open hall include a wide opening (now infilled) with knee braces. The hall is one bay wide with large broach stop-chamfers on the bridging beams and a heavy lintel over the hall fireplace. No. 13 consists of a single two-bay cell from the later 16th century, likely a parlour, which is unmodernised with most timbers concealed. At the rear of the stack, there is a newel stair, with the lower part retaining 16th-century treads.