9, Southgate Street

No. 9 Southgate Street is a house dating from the mid to late 16th century. It features a timber-framed structure with exposed timbers on the jettied upper storey. The ground storey has been faced with brick, which is now plastered. The roof has concrete plain tiles on the front slope and 20th-century single Roman tiles on the rear slope.

The building is two storeys high, with a jetty that has a moulded bressumer supported by two small solid brackets. There is one window on each storey, both of which are small-paned 20th-century casements. At the rear, there is a two-storey flat-roofed extension.

Inside, the house has been significantly modernised since the 1960s, with few original features remaining. There is a small cellar with flint rubble walls and a vaulted ceiling made of 19th-century brick. On the upper rear wall, the middle rail of the frame is exposed along with a section of studding. A main beam features a long jowl and the housing for a missing arched brace, and there is a face-halved scarf joint in the rear wallplate.