10, 12, 14 AND 18, CHURCH ROAD

This is a house, now an office, with two cottages to the rear, dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, and altered subsequently. The building is constructed of brick, with a flint plinth to the front element (numbers 14 and 18), and a small flint-walled addition, all now painted white. It has red tile roofs. The layout is L-shaped, comprising a two-unit front element with an addition to the right, and a four-unit range to the rear. Number 18 is two storeys and two bays (plus a single-storey addition to the right). It features a high plinth and a two-course band. The doorway, offset left of centre, has three steps that break through the plinth, a modern glazed door with a simple wooden cornice, a timber lintel that runs out to the left over a four-pane fixed window, and a six-pane fixed window to the right, also with a similar timber lintel. A large signboard is attached at first floor level. A modern chimney stack is attached to the left gable wall. The addition to the right (likely a former shop) has a bowed fixed window with glazing bars, covering a smaller splayed opening, and a former doorway in the gable wall altered to become a bow window. The rear range (numbers 10 and 12) is two storeys with five windows at first floor level and a three-course band (the date "1734" is scratched into number 12). It has a modern flat-roofed glazed porch to number 12 and a gabled brick porch to number 16. The windows have been altered. A ridge chimney is located at the junction with number 18. The rear of the range has a full-height lean-to addition with an asbestos sheet roof. The interior of the rear range (numbers 10 and 12) contains a queen-post roof of four trusses, each with three queen-posts, clasped purlins trenched into the collars, straight windbraces, common rafters, and some simple carpenter’s marks.