10 and 12, Newbury Street

This is a house, originally dating to the late 15th century. A datestone on the left gable stack is inscribed with the year 1679. The house was initially timber-framed and has undergone several phases of building and alteration. The right side of the building features 18th-century Flemish bond brickwork, while the left side is constructed of late 19th-century brick. The first floor and left side wall are stuccoed, and the roof is covered in old tiles. There are brick stacks; the left gable stack is of Flemish bond brick with flared headers.

The house likely began as a hall and was remodelled in the mid to late 16th century into a three-unit cross-passage plan. The front elevation is two storeys high with a three-window range. It features a late 19th-century door and casements to the left, a late 19th-century plank door and an early 19th-century sash window to the right (No. 10). The first floor has a late 19th-century casement to the right, an 18th-century three-light casement with a central leaded light and a late 19th-century anthropomorphic corbel supporting a late 17th-century square bay with wood-mullioned, leaded casements. The roof is gabled, with a ridge stack and a left gable end external stack with a facemask beneath the datestone.

The rear right side is two storeys high with a two-window range, rendered over original 15th-century timber framing with a gabled old tile roof and a rear end stack.

The interior reveals exposed timber framing, including arch braces in the right and rear right wings, and concealed timber-framed partition walls. There are chamfered and stopped ground- and first-floor beams from the mid to late 16th century. A 17th-century two-panelled door leads to a quarter-turn staircase. A chamfered and stopped bressumer sits above the first-floor fireplace to the right of the centre. The roof on the left of the ridge stack is a late 15th-century chamfered arch-braced collar-truss roof with clasped purlins, flanked by queen-strut trusses, one of which retains original wattle and daub infill. A ridge stack and ceiling with beams were probably inserted in the mid 16th century.