38 AND 39, WOOD STREET (See details for further address information)

Three cottages, located at 38 and 39 Wood Street, Wallingford, with a section extending to No. 5 St Leonard's Lane. The cottages date to the late 17th century with early 18th, late 18th, and 19th-century alterations. No. 5 is likely from the early 19th century. They form an L-shaped plan. No. 38 has a cellar. The facades have three windows facing St Leonard's Lane, a splayed angle with one window, and two windows facing Wood Street.

The cottages are constructed of red brick with silver-grey vitrified headers. They have old tiled pitched roofs with tall brick stacks. Nos. 38 and 39 have a dentil brick eaves cornice, and No. 39 has a similar cornice to its chimney stack. The timber frames of Nos. 38 and 39 are substantial, with both wattle and daub and brick infill, with later brick casing from the late 18th and 19th centuries; some areas feature clunch. Both cottages have ledged entrance doors on the St Leonard's Lane facade. No. 5 features a half-panelled door with two lights and a good, enriched brass 19th-century letterbox. There are two blocked doors on the Wood Street facade. Windows are mainly segmental arched, including sliding sash and casement examples. No. 38 has a good late 17th to early 18th-century moulded three-light casement on the ground floor Wood Street facade. No. 39 incorporates a re-set stone plaque inscribed 'HWM 178?'.

The interior of No. 39 retains a timber-framed wall behind a 19th-century outshoot, with a partially exposed frame showing large curved braces in other areas. Other features include widely chamfered and stopped beams, wide early 18th-century floorboards to the first floor, plank and muntin partitioning, and early 18th-century ledged doors with original catches and hinges, one with fielded panels to the base and a 19th-century small-pane top. A mid-to-late 19th-century cast-iron cottage range, fire surround, and fitted shelves are located in the ground floor front room. No. 38 has some exposed framing, braces, and rafters from the original roof, along with widely chamfered and stopped beams, including early 18th-century floorboards on the first floor, an early chamfered plank and muntin partition to the stair, a moulded early 18th-century fire surround, moulded two-panel doors (one with a fielded panel and one with a spring latch), and a ground floor moulded three-light late 17th to early 18th-century casement. The cellar contains clunch in the walls and two segmental-arched recesses. No. 5 has chamfered and stopped transverse beams supporting the first floor, partially exposed trusses to the first floor, matchboard panelling for interior partitioning, and an unusual patterned metal first-floor ceiling vent.