10, Strand Street

This is a house, dating to around the early 17th century, which was refaced with brick in the early 19th century and altered in the 20th century. It is timber-framed and brick-built, with a Flemish bond pattern to the brickwork. The front first floor is rendered, while the gable displays exposed timber framing. The roof is covered in plain clay tiles, gabled at the front and hipped at the rear, with a 20th-century brick stack on the right-hand side at the rear.

The original internal arrangement is unclear, but the house now has a 2-room plan, featuring a large front room with direct access from the street and a 20th-century stack on the right. A smaller rear room once had a stack on its rear end wall, which was later removed and replaced with a doorway leading to a late 20th-century single-storey outshut at the back. Around the early 19th century, the timber frame was faced with brick. In the 20th century, the front of the building was demolished to widen the street; its neighbour, number 8, was similarly altered. The two properties, then under common ownership, were given a uniform facade, featuring a jettied first floor and exposed timber framing to the gables.

The front of the building is asymmetrical with a gabled design and two windows. The ground floor is red brick and contains a 20th-century 16-pane hornless sash window to the right and a 20th-century panelled door to the left. The jettied first floor is rendered and has two 20th-century 12-pane sash windows. The gable above is also jettied and displays exposed vertical close-studding with curved tension braces, along with 20th-century wavy bargeboards with pendants. The rear features a 20th-century single-storey outshut and a bay window alcove.

Inside, wall posts are visible on both the ground and first floors, but little other timber framing is exposed besides the ceiling beams. The roof is a 20th-century softwood structure, likely replaced after bomb damage in the Second World War. The front room features a chamfered cross-beam with nearly run-out stops, along with a late 20th-century fireplace and staircase. The back room, originally heated by a fireplace on the rear wall, has an ovolo-moulded axial beam without stops. A visible rail, appearing to be from the original timber frame, has a wide cavetto moulding, resembling a cornice. A timber door, dating to the 18th century, separates the two rooms. It has two panels below the rail and 12 panes above, with crown glass. It remains in its original moulded frame, complete with L-shaped hinges and a six-pane overlight. The house is believed to date no earlier than the 17th century, as this side of The Strand is considered a post-medieval development.