90A, 90 AND 92, OCKFORD ROAD

This is a timber-frame house, dating to the early 16th century, which has been altered and is now divided into two dwellings, one of which incorporates a shop. It was originally an open hall house, with a central bay and a solar (a private chamber) at the right end, and later developed with further bays and outbuildings.

The building is timber-framed with wattle and daub infill, and has a plain tile roof. The timber frame displays wall posts, some with straight bracing to the wall plate and narrow vertical panels to the first floor. Number 90A, on the right-hand side, features a 20th-century four-panel door with glazed upper panels and a small-pane casement window to its right. A three-light window rises as a flat-roofed dormer above, with a small four-pane window set below the eaves. Number 90, at the centre, has a late 19th-century shop front with a black brick plinth, recessed two-panel door (upper panel glazed), and a continuous overlight. The shop front is finished with panelled pilasters, a fascia board with a dentilled cornice, and a leaded flat roof. To the right of the shop front is a three-light casement window, and on the first floor, two casement windows, each rising as a flat-roofed dormer. Number 92, on the left-hand side, features a door with pointed-arched panels and a three-light small-pane casement to its left, with a matching window above. A stack is located at the left end, with other stacks at the rear of the ridge. The rear elevation shows a central external brick stack and mortices in the soffit from former window mullions. Visible timber framing and an added wing are also present.

The interior retains exposed timber framing, including arched braces. The third bay (originally the open hall) features a large, cross-beam with lambs tongue stops, and framed partition walls with queen-post trusses and sooted rafters on the first floor. The fourth bay includes an 18th-century cellar with rubblestone walls and a stop-chamfered cross-beam. A front room on the ground floor has raised and fielded panelling from the 18th century, while a rear wall on the first floor displays mortices indicating previous brace and window mullions (for the solar window). A wooden winder stair rises from the first floor to the attic. The added bay from the 18th century features a brick fireplace with a chamfered, cambered timber lintel. Doors throughout the house are also from the 18th century. The roof over bays two to four has clasped purlins, queen-post roof trusses with reducing rafter sizes above collars, straight wind braces, and bridle-jointed rafters.