37, Nether Street

37 Nether Street is a house dating from around 1600. It has two storeys and attics, and features two and a half bays. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof and an end chimney-stack, which is rebuilt in plain red brick. The house has various casement windows, including some 2-light and small-paned windows, along with some 20th-century replacements. The gable-end casement windows serve the attic. A 20th-century plank door has been relocated to the right end of the front and is set within a 20th-century open rustic porch that also has a thatched roof.

Inside, all the timbering is exposed and is of particularly good quality, forming a complete three-room house with one room on each floor. The gable wall enclosing the chimney-stack has suffered significant fire damage in the past and contains several replacement timbers. The ground-floor room, which spans two bays, features a shutter-slide along the rear wall and an exposed ceiling with heavy main cross-beams and joists set flat. The fireplace has a plain timber lintel. At the rear of the chimney-stack is a newel stair, while the front shows the position of the original entry into a lobby that once had a door leading to the living room, now removed. The upper room, which is now divided, retains its main cross-beams and joists set on edge, an open fireplace with a timber lintel, and remnants of shutter-slides for two original windows, although there are no housing for mullions. The roof, consisting of two and a half bays to match the frame, features clasped purlins and arched windbraces.