133, OCK STREET

The property at 133 Ock Street is a house dating back to the 17th century, with extensions and alterations from the 19th century and 20th century. The ground floor is built of rubblestone, with some sections replaced using breeze blocks, and the upper parts are timber-framed, partially replaced, and rendered on the front. A timber-framed wing extends to the rear left, set on a rubblestone plinth; this wing incorporates weatherboard cladding, painted brickwork, and upper sections covered in tile hanging. The roof is tiled, with a front pitch featuring 20th-century concrete replacement tiles, and brick stacks are present. Originally a two-story building, a third story has been added to the front. The front elevation features two stone steps leading to a four-panel door within a moulded architrave. There are two three-light windows and two two-light windows on the ground floor, along with a single, unequally-hung, twelve-pane sash window on the second floor – all with 20th-century small-pane casements and hardwood sills. The left return side features casement windows on the wing. At the rear, the front range shows some exposed rubblestone and rafter feet, and contains an external rebuilt stack from the late 20th century. The wing has a brick ridge stack and the outshut, added to the rear of the right bay of the front range, has a nine-pane sash window to the side and a four-pane sash window to the gable end.

Inside the front range, there are large-scantling chamfered spine beams with lambs-tongue stops. The right-hand room on the ground floor has board wainscot, two six-panel doors with reeded architraves and roundels in the spandrels, a fireplace with a pulvinated surround, and a quarry tile floor. The left-hand room has partial paneling, boarded wainscot, and a shallow moulded ceiling cornice, which appears to be from the late 18th century. A wooden winder stair has a small section of late 18th-century style balustrade, featuring a tapered square section newel and square-section balusters. The first floor has two two-panel doors and a wall safe. A wooden winder stair leads to the attic, with cross walls having posts between the tie-beam and collar, clasped purlins, and a later roof structure above. The wing displays some exposed timber framing at the rear, along with cross beams and tie-beams; the truss adjoining the front range exhibits jowelled wall-posts, indications of former braces to a tie-beam, wall plates, and a later roof structure. The building retains significant elements of its 17th-century structure, along with later features from the 18th and 19th centuries of interest.