Masongill House

House. Dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, with later alterations, the building is timber-framed and rendered with applied mock timbering. It has a plaintiled roof with a modillion eaves cornice. The property comprises two wings at the rear and has two windows on each storey. The first storey windows are 16-pane sashes in flush cased frames. The ground storey has tripartite sashes with 12-pane central windows, also in flush cased frames. A six-panel entrance door, with the top four panels glazed, is accessed by steps with iron handrails and stands within a 20th-century cast-iron openwork porch.

The interior includes a brick-lined cellar. The front range is arranged in two long bays. The room to the left of the entrance has exposed studding on the rear wall and a fireplace on the south wall, featuring a 19th-century cast-iron grate with a row of 17th-century blue Dutch tiles above. The room to the right features an adzed main beam and flat joists with chamfered stops and run-out stops. A rear chimney stack has an open fireplace with a plain timber lintel and old brickwork, partially rebuilt. Part of the upper stack is constructed from flint.

The north rear wing, originally a single room on each storey, is now divided by partitioning. A fireplace on the west side of the internal chimney stack has a large cambered lintel with supporting stone jambs, which have been altered. On the upper storey, the north wall exhibits exposed studding and heavy tension bracing. The cambered tie-beam of the former open truss has a peg-hole for a crown post; the roof above is a complete 20th-century replacement, although the base and part of the shaft of the original crown post remain in the house. The shaft is octagonal with curved stops to the base. The south wing abuts onto the rear wing of No. 68. The 19th-century reconstruction of the roof over the front range incorporates earlier rafters, some showing smoke blackening indicative of an earlier open hall, possibly from an earlier phase of the building.