The Homestead

The Homestead comprises two houses and a former shop, dating from the 15th century, with substantial alterations in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The houses are timber framed, now rendered, with a tile-hung left gable and a plain tile roof. Number 36 includes a 15th-century storeyed bay, originally set back from the road and later partially demolished. The bay immediately to its right was rebuilt in the mid-17th century, with a further bay added slightly later. A butcher’s shop was added to the front of the 15th-century bay in the late 18th or early 19th century, creating an L-shaped plan. Number 38 dates from the late 17th or early 18th century, featuring an early 19th-century facade and originally standing separate from Number 36 to the north.

Number 36 has two storeys. The butcher's shop has a flat canopy over the shop front with a boxed, coved wood eaves cornice which extends along the right return elevation. The roof of the shop is hipped to the road and continuous with Number 38. The roof of the rear range is hipped to the right. A ridge stack stands off-centre to the right of the rear range. The fenestration is irregular, with one first-floor glazing-bar sash over the shop, and two four-light mullioned and transomed casements, possibly original, to the rear range. A 19th-century double shop front is present, with a 20th-century ribbed door to the left and a central 19th-century panelled door with a rectangular light over. A doorway with a moulded architrave and flat hood on carved brackets is in the right return elevation of the shop towards the junction with the rear range.

Number 38 is two storeys and attic and has a moulded eaves cornice which stops short of the ends, with a plain coped parapet. A raised border with concave corners runs around the entire front elevation, extending above the eaves cornice. A rear brick stack is off-centre to the right, and there are two plain dormers. The fenestration is regular, with two glazing-bar sashes and a blocked central window recess. A central panelled door is flanked by reeded pilasters, and has a small, flat, moulded hood.

Inside Number 36, the 15th-century bay was formerly jettied to the north, east, and west, featuring a moulded dragon post to the north-east. The bay to the right has moulded wood corbels to the cross-beam.