Church Court the Chantry the Close

Church Court, The Chantry and The Close is a row of houses dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. The buildings are timber framed with exposed plaster infill, featuring a red brick ground floor in part and tile hung rear elevations. They have a plain tiled roof. The structure includes a hall house with an additional wing. The 15th-century section on the left has a red brick ground floor that was probably originally end-jettied, with a close-studded return elevation and an arch-braced upper floor at the front. It has a hipped roof with gablets, a gabled dormer on the left return, a stack projecting at the end left, and a stack cluster to the right. There are two leaded wooden casements on each floor and a boarded door at the center within a gabled porch. To the right is a large 16th-century wing with an exposed small panelled frame. This wing has two storeys and an attic, featuring a half-hipped roof and three gabled dormers, with a stack to the right. There are three mullioned windows on each floor, along with two additional openings on the first floor. This building was formerly the village workhouse.