7, 9 AND 11, HIGH STREET

The buildings at numbers 7, 9, and 11 High Street, Overton, are a group of houses, likely originally with shops, dating from the late 15th or early 16th century. Later alterations occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries. The buildings are timber-framed with wattle and daub infill, now rendered, and have rear additions constructed of painted brick. The roof is covered with Welsh slates to the front and plain tiles to the rear, with a brick stack. Originally two storeys and jettied, the main street elevation now presents three bays, with a narrow chimney bay between numbers 7 and 9 (the stack has since been removed). Rear wing additions are present on numbers 7 and 11.

Number 7 has a late 20th-century glazed door on the left side of a wide canted window, and a two-light eight-pane wooden casement window above. Number 9 has a half-glazed door flanked by late 20th-century windows, with two more windows above. Number 11 has a half-glazed four-panel door on the right and a tripartite sash window on the left, with a first-floor window matching that of number 7. A ridge stack stands between numbers 9 and 11.

The rear of number 7 features an old iron casement with leading in a chamfered wooden surround to the first floor on the right. A wing here appears to date from the late 18th or early 19th century, with later windows. A mid- to late 19th-century wing is attached to number 11.

The timber frame is particularly well-preserved within number 7, and is also concealed at the right end of number 11 (visible from the roof of number 13). Features include large jowelled wall posts and massive arch braces, close-studded front wall (to the first floor), evidence of a former two-light window with a diagonal-set mullion and shutter in number 7, wattle and daub infill panels, and partition walls between the left-hand and chimney bays in number 7 with two doorways. The roof structure includes cambered tie beams, queen posts, cambered collars clasped purlins, and sections of old rafters (mostly replaced). Hollow-moulded joists and chamfered beams are found in numbers 7 and 9, with broad chamfers and stepped cyma stops. A similar beam is present in number 11, possibly a jetty bressumer (boxed). Number 7 also contains a fine four-centered arched stone fireplace on the ground floor, with vine scrolls in the spandrels and an ogel-arched recess beside it; the first-floor fireplace retains one hollow-moulded jamb. Number 9 was not fully inspected.