38, 39 AND 40, A423

Three houses, originally one, were built in the mid-18th century and subsequently extended and remodelled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The houses are constructed of brick in Flemish bond, with old plain-tile roofs and brick stacks. The plan is T-shaped. The central three-bay section of the front elevation, which comprises five windows, is of the earlier phase and features a plinth, a band between the ground and first floor, and a dentil eaves course. It contains three segmental-arched, two-light plank-shuttered casements on the ground floor; the central window replaces a former doorway, and there are three two-light casements on the first floor. The later bays on the outer sides have similar windows. A hipped roof is punctuated by two gabled roof dormers, with ridge stacks flanking the earlier bays and two tall stacks rising from the rear of the building. Number 38 forms a rear wing and is a later addition. The interior remains uninspected. The houses form the southern termination of the village street, and were likely originally identical to numbers 1 and 2. They are part of the estate village constructed around 1760 by the 1st Earl Harcourt.