32 And 33, Crown Street

32 and 33 Crown Street is a house dating from the late 16th century that was refronted and divided into two separate properties in the early 19th century. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, with plaintiled roofs. The building has a two-cell internal chimney plan and stands two storeys tall with attics and a cellar.

The exterior includes a two-window range, with 16-pane sash windows in flush cased frames on each storey. There are two segmental-headed dormers, each with small-paned two-light casement windows. An internal chimney stack has a plain rebuilt rectangular red brick shaft. At the back of No.32, there is a two-storey extension with a shallow-pitched slate roof that runs parallel to the main roof, separated by a valley gutter.

Inside, part of No.32 has a brick-and-flint-lined cellar featuring a large supporting ceiling beam. The front upper room displays exposed studding, and the Tudor brick of the chimney stack is visible in the attic. The upper ceilings have joists set on edge, and the original rafters are halved and pegged at the apex. On the ground floor, the main cross-beams show empty mortices indicating a former partition. No.33 contains an open fireplace on the ground floor, with a large camber to the timber lintel, and the bricks show extensive traces of red ochre colouring and lining. The ceiling beams are boxed in, and the rafters have been reused. An overlap on the upper storeys suggests that the house may have originally extended further north.