Stream Cottages

Stream Cottages are a hall-house, originally built as a single dwelling, now divided into a pair of houses. The core of the structure dates to around 1420-1450, with a solar wing added approximately 1480-1500. The first floor has been reclad in later 19th century materials. The building is timber-framed with a brick ground floor, except under the left-hand jetty where original close-studded timber framing with plaster infilling is visible. The roof is tiled with return gables at both ends, with a left-hand gable extending over the first-floor jetty, displaying exposed bressumer, joist ends and brackets. C16 moulded wooden barge boards are present. A stack is located behind the ridge on the left side of the building. The building is two storeys high, with an irregular fenestration of five windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor. A boarded and panelled door is positioned to the left of the right-hand ground floor window, beneath the gable of number 44. A two-storey, later 20th-century addition set back on the left forms the entrance to numbers 46 and 48. The interior retains significant evidence of timber framing. There is a built-in stack with carved Tudor arched wooden bressumers to fireplaces in the drawing and dining rooms, and moulded beams in the drawing room, formerly a parlour. A cambered beam exists over the solar, now a bedroom, which may have once supported a solar crown-post. A crown-post may also be present over the former hall; the roof space was inaccessible at the time of the last inspection.