Number 5 And Attached Walls

Number 5 is a house, originally divided into two dwellings, dating to the late 16th century and around 1600. The building is timber-framed and rendered with a plaintiled roof. A distinctive feature is the internal chimney-stack, which has four attached hexagonal shafts on a rectangular base. The front range follows a three-cell internal chimney and cross-entry plan, and is jettied, with a long rear wing forming an L shape. A small section of the jetty has been underbuilt.

The exterior is two storeys high with a cellar. It has three windows to each storey: one original four-light oriel-type window and two twelve-pane sash windows on the first floor (with a blocked central window), and sixteen-pane sashes on the ground floor, with one wider twenty-eight-pane shop window to the left. There are two half-glazed doors, one of which is blocked, and a foot-scraper beside it. To the right is a short length of high 19th-century red brick wall with a boarded door set within a pointed archway.

The interior of the front range has plain framing, with little exposed on the ground storey. Wide-spaced studding is visible above the ground floor, along with main posts with long jowls. Several windows, incorporating ovolo-moulded mullions and intermediate wooden bars, have been inserted, including one on the ground floor and two above. Housings in the rear wallplate indicate that the original upper windows had diamond mullions. The internal chimney stack has only one ground floor hearth exposed, featuring rounded brickwork with a plain chamfered timber lintel and scroll stops. Pink colouring remains on the brickwork above the lintel. Two hearths are on the upper storey: in the middle room, rounded stone blocks form the jambs supporting a small timber lintel, and in the south end room, the lintel has a black letter inscription surrounded by a decorated border. The inscription, clearly legible, reads: 'Wisdom knowledge and understanding ar the sowls most precious(?) clothing give the glory (unto) God only.' It is covered by a glass panel. Below, a later grate is set within a 18th-century eared surround.

The rear range, seemingly slightly older than the front, is in two bays, with a small fragment of a third bay at its east end connecting to the front. A small early 19th-century extension is at the west end, with a raised duck's nest grate on the upper storey. An attic window is in the gable, but the roof space is no longer accessible.