24-26, The Causeway

Dated 1615, 24-26 The Causeway originally comprised a single house, now divided into three cottages. It is timber-framed with a plastered front, the ground floor having been rebuilt in brick and subsequently plastered. The upper floor is partly tile-hung towards the churchyard. The original design included a recessed centre and two projecting wings. The first floor of the wings overhung on moulded bressumers, but the south wing has been underbuilt and the north wing altered to create a shed with ground-floor doors. The wings have gabled fronts with renewed scalloped bargeboards. A smaller third gable sits above a dormer window in the centre. The roof is of Horsham slab construction. The centre and north gable rise to two storeys and attics. There are four windows, all modern casements except for the original attic window in the centre gable. The building forms a group with the Manor House, Stables to the south, numbers 24-31 (consecutive) and numbers 1-7 (odd) Blackhorse Way, as well as with the listed buildings in South Street. The listed buildings in The Causeway are considered a particularly significant group when viewed alongside those in Market Square and South Street.