The Elizabethan House

The Elizabethan House, located at 40 and 40A Hart Street, is a building from the 16th century and later, constructed with a timber frame and plaster with painted brick infill. It features a double span, hipped roof covered with old tiles and stands three storeys tall with five windows. The windows are sashes with late 19th-century glazing. On the ground floor, there are two early 19th-century shop windows beneath cornices; the eastern window includes a door and has a dentil cornice, entablature, and pilasters, while the western window is simpler with pilasters. The central door has an architrave and a small flat hood. A side wall made of red brick and flint to the east connects the building to the Old School House at the rear. The Elizabethan House is part of a group that includes several other buildings and features along Hart Street, such as Nos 2 to 8 (even), Nos 14 to 36 (even), Adam House, Nos 40 to 44, gates and piers at 48 and 50, the Old School House, and the Rectory Garden Wall, forming a cohesive historical context with the Drinking Fountain, the Parish Church of St Mary, and the raised pavement at the east end of Hart Street.