The Recess

This is an early 16th-century house with a later 16th-century addition, situated at a right angle to the street behind number 15A. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with a pantiled roof and comprises three cells. It is two storeys high with an attic. The original section has a jetty underbuilt to the south. The south-facing front has three 19th-century casement windows on the first floor. On the ground floor are two 16-pane sash windows and a mid-20th-century casement. There are two doorways with semi-glazed four-panel doors, one with an overlight. Three flush rooflights are visible. An internal stack has an axial shaft.

The interior of the original 2 1/2-bay section reveals early 16th-century timbering, with close studding on the upper floor. The western bay features heavy, closely-spaced joists, evidence of a former cross-partition and a stairtrap. A northern bay previously contained a passage leading through from the front, with two blocked four-centre arched doorways on the ground floor, one featuring leaf-carved spandrels (reversed in the mid-20th century). The central room contains a good-quality early 18th-century corner cupboard with a semi-domed head. The cupboard's interior is painted with a scene of Bacchus and Ariadne in a chariot pulled by a lion (in a panther skin) and leopard, emerging from clouds. The roof is a good, largely intact plain crown-post roof with two-way bracing. The two-bay addition, one bay containing a stack, includes intact first-floor studding and an incomplete window with chamfered mullions. It also has a clasped purlin roof. An 18th-century first-floor stair is located near the stack, and a newel attic stair is also present.