The Old Stores

The Old Stores is a house formed from a row of three dwellings, originally dating to the 17th century, with an 18th/19th-century house built in between, and 20th-century alterations and additions. The front elevation is of rendered rubble with pantiled roofs, some double Roman tiles to the rear. The house to the far right is extended to the rear, creating an L-shaped plan. The left-hand house has two and a half storeys and a single window. It features a ground and first-floor 3-light casement window, a small single light at ground floor right, and a steep gable rising to ridge height with a 2-light casement window. The central house, of two storeys and two windows, is of 20th-century design. A door is set beneath a flat stone hood on brackets. The house to the far right is of two storeys and one window. It has two 9-pane sash windows at ground floor (the left formerly a door) and a large gable rising from outer walls to ridge height with a 2-light casement window, all of 20th-century design. The return fronts have 3-light casement windows. The left return has casements at ground and first floor, and a single light at attic level in the gable end. The rear elevation has extensive single-storey 20th-century additions; the rear of the left-hand house mirrors the front with a single light, while a two-storey rear wing to the right house contains a French window and a 2-light casement on the inner side. The interior of the house to the far right includes a former external door at ground floor with a chamfered segmental head and a blocked stair light. The front room has a fireplace with a timber lintel featuring carved decoration and an oven recess with a 20th-century window. A spice cupboard, with butterfly hinges and a moulded door surround, is also present, alongside chamfered beams. A rear room has chamfered and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, a fireplace in the outer corner with a cambered lintel, and a newel stair. A first-floor front room features a fireplace with a dated plaster overmantel decorated with fleur-de-lys. The roof structure of the right-hand house reveals two bays with principal rafters, one row of purlins, and beams that have suffered fire damage.