Numbers 81-87 (Old Beams Number 83 And Bakers Lodge Number 87)

Numbers 81-87, also known as Old Beams (No. 83) and Bakers Lodge (No. 87), is a house that was likely a former farmhouse, now subdivided. It dates from the 17th century or earlier, with probable later additions. The building has solid rendered walls and a slated roof with varying ridge heights, hipped to the right.

On the front wall of No. 87, there is a large rendered chimney with offsets and a tapered cap topped with an added shaft, likely made of brick. To the left, partly hidden by a gabled addition, there is another rendered chimney with a tapered cap that has also been heightened. To the right, sitting on the wall top, is a third rendered chimney with a tapered cap, also heightened. The building likely follows a 3-room-and-cross-passage plan, with a lengthened lower end to the right and an added cross-wing in front of the left-hand end.

The house has two storeys and is six windows wide. No. 81 features a 2-paned sash window in each storey, positioned towards the right, with a late 20th-century half-glazed wood door to the left. No. 83 has a late 20th-century plastic door to the right, set in a partly-blocked wide opening, along with plastic-framed windows in each storey. No. 85 has a wide doorway with a plank door to the left, which appears to be shared with No. 87. It also features a late 20th-century plastic-framed window in the ground storey and two more in the upper storey. No. 87 has box-framed sashes with one upright glazing bar per sash, and two in the right-hand ground-storey window, with one window in each storey to the right and one in each storey of the cross-wing.

The interior has not been inspected, but a description from 1975 notes that No. 87 retains a through passage and part of the original roof structure, featuring through purlins and a collar to a truss that appears to be a raised cruck with crossed blades.