19, 19A AND 21, ANGEL HILL

Nos. 19, 19A, and 21 Angel Hill is a shop and offices that were formerly three houses and shops but originally one house. It dates from the late 15th century and early 16th century, with later rear extensions. The building is timber-framed and jettied, featuring closely-spaced timbering along the front that is limewashed. It has plaintiled roofs and is two storeys high with attics, comprising six bays.

The exterior includes three flat-headed dormers with two-light casement windows in the attics, four 20th-century reproduction mullioned windows on the first storey with arched spandrels, and late 20th-century shop fronts on the ground storey. The jetty is supported by small solid brackets, and the main posts have ornate shafts below these brackets. Breaks in the jetty line indicate that the five bays to the east, which include a narrow entry bay, originally formed a Wealden-type house with an open hall in two bays, flanked by two jettied ends. This hall was later ceiled over and jettied out in the late 16th century. The western bay is an early 16th-century addition in a similar style, which originally had another jettied storey but now only has projecting joist ends supporting the wallplate for a later roof.

Inside, some plain heavy timbering is exposed. At the east end, service partitions have been removed, and a 16th-century chimney stack has been inserted, backing up against the cross entry. An embattled beam at the lower end of the hall is now embedded in the brickwork. Although all timbers are covered in the attics, it is believed that no part of the roof structure is original.