9-11, Village Street

Nos. 9 to 11 on Village Street are a house that has been converted into three cottages, dating back to the 16th century. Originally timber-framed, the building features a stuccoed and jettied first floor, with the left side underpinned by 18th-century flint and brick and the right side in colourwashed brick. The left gable wall reveals an exposed queen-post truss. The roof is covered with old tiles and has brick stacks. The building is arranged in an L-shape, with two storeys and a three-window range. It has timber lintels above a 20th-century door and casements, except for a segmental arch over the left casement. The gabled roof has end stacks and a shortened front lateral stack. There is a horizontal sliding sash window on the left side wall. The rear left section of the building, also from the 16th century, has two storeys and two bays at the front, featuring jettied square timber framing over flint rubble, mostly clad in flint rubble with brick crossbanding, and an old tile gabled roof with a brick ridge stack. Inside, there are chamfered and stopped beams, jowled posts supporting the jetty, arch braces on the chamfered and stopped tie beams, and a queen-post roof with clasped purlins. The partially inspected jettied range at the rear left shows deeper chamfered beams and lower ceiling heights, suggesting it may be of an even earlier date.