Corner House Wyvern House

Corner House and Wyvern House are a group of buildings with origins dating back to the 16th or 17th century, later significantly altered in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Corner House fronts onto Church Road, while Wyvern House and its rear wing extend along Lower Road.

Corner House is constructed of pebble-dashed brick, painted white, and has a red tiled roof. It has a single depth plan and is arranged over two storeys with three bays. The façade is symmetrical, though the windows and doorway are slightly offset to the left. A wooden porch with slender Tuscan columns and pilasters, a plain frieze and moulded cornice shelters the centrally positioned door, which has four fielded panels. There are two 16-pane sash windows at ground floor and three above, all with exposed window boxes. The roof sweeps over the eaves, and a chimney is located at the left gable. The rear elevation features a central door, a 16-pane sash window on each floor, and a small two-storey extension to the rear of the first bay, with tile hanging to the first floor. The interior is not of particular interest.

Wyvern House is attached to Corner House and consists of several distinct builds. The projecting front element is a 19th-century shop with one unit and two storeys, featuring a large rectangular shop window beneath a cornice, and a sash window above. A round-headed doorway and window are present on the return wall (facing Lower Road) at ground floor, with a four-light casement above. Adjacent to this is a bay of 1½ storeys, with white-painted render covering brick, displaying a coupled sash window at ground floor and a large transomed six-light casement in a gableted half-dormer. A long two-storey range built of flint lies beyond, characterized by a plinth with moulded brick coping. Within this range are a small blocked wagon doorway with a timber lintel and hand-made brick quoins, a small blocked window to the right, and other windows at first floor, all with brick surrounds. Chimney stacks are visible on the slope of the roof near the west end and at the east gable. The west gable wall has doorways on each floor accessed by wooden steps, and a weather-boarded gable with a six-pane fixed window. The rear elevation incorporates a high plinth, two doorways, and two casements at ground floor and three above.

The interior of the flint-walled range contains two large, stop-chamfered beams at ground floor, along with a common-rafter roof featuring three tie-beams and windbraces near the east end. A shorter, lower element adjacent to the flint range reveals a wall-post, part of a wallplate, and a common-rafter roof with large scantling purlins.