33 And 34, Whiting Street

33 and 34 Whiting Street is a house that was divided into two during the 19th century. It dates from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with later extensions and a mid-19th century front. The building is timber-framed and rendered, featuring a tiled roof with bands of black fishscale tiles and a ridge adorned with ornamental crest tiles. No. 33 has a jettied front with a small projecting section of slate roof above. The original layout likely included a storied hall and a cross-wing.

The exterior consists of two storeys and attics, with four sash windows on the first storey and three on the ground storey, all in flush cased frames with a single vertical glazing bar in each light. There are two entrance doors: No. 33 has a four-panel door with a semicircular fanlight that has radiating glazing bars, and a plain architrave with a bracketed flat roof above it; No. 34 features an early 20th-century half-glazed door with a rectangular fanlight. There are 19th-century extensions at the rear, which have been modernised, and a dormer window is present in the rear slope of the roof.

Inside, No. 33 is arranged in three bays and was likely originally roofed at right angles to the street. The front ground-storey room has an exposed timber ceiling with a blocked stair-trap, heavy unchamfered joists, and a chamfered main beam. Most of the studding has been removed, including the partition wall that separated the rear bay, but the front wall retains housings for a window with moulded mullions. On the first storey, the south wall of the rear bay shows remnants of a long shutter slide and several diamond mullions. The attic above the rear was not inspected, and the roof structure is covered.

In No. 34, the front ground floor room features a heavy main beam with a wide chamfer and unusually large stops. There is a very fine fitted cupboard in one corner and a door made from square Jacobean panelling. A chimney stack has been curiously inserted at the rear of the room, with a flue that is partly horizontal. On the upper storey, the rear wall plate suggests a roof-raising, but the roof timbers are all covered.