7, 8 And 9, Deanery Place

Nos 7, 8, and 9 Deanery Place is a building that has been divided into three dwellings. It dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th, 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The exterior features stuccoed and rendered brick, scored to resemble ashlar at the front, which conceals timber frames, and has a plain tile roof. Originally, the building had four bays, with a central two-bay open hall and jettied storeyed end bays. The hall was partially floored in the later 16th century, leaving a smoke bay in the second bay. A chimney was added, and the building was fully floored in the 17th century. The jetties were removed, and the entire front was re-faced in the early to mid-19th century.

The road-facing side has two storeys and features three first-floor windows. There are three doorways, with the left and central bays serving Nos 8 and 9, which have paired six-panel doors with knockers, architraves with reeded pilasters, and bracketed canopies. Nos 8 and 9 each have a sash window with glazing bars on the ground floor and an unequally-hung nine-pane sash above. No 7 has a sash window on each floor. All windows are set in reveals with projecting sills, and the first-floor windows break into stepped, dentilled eaves. The roof is hipped on the left side, with an external stack at the left end and another stack in the front roof pitch between the right-hand bays. The rear additions are not of special interest.

Inside, No 7 features exposed timber framing. The interiors of Nos 8 and 9 have not been inspected but are reported to contain a former central hall truss with hollow-chamfered arch braces and run-out stops to the chamfered tie-beam, which has peg holes likely from a former crown post. There are also curved braces in the former end walls of the hall. In No 8, there is an inserted stop-chamfered spine beam that ends on the left in a chamfered cross-beam, with the area beyond originally left open as a smoke bay. In 1976, work on the front of No 9 revealed large-scantling carved braces on the ground floor.