20, West Street

1. 5409 WEST STREET (North-East Side) No 20 SU 0931 5/58 II GV 2. Late C18 front to circa 1600-1625 house. 2 storeys stuccoed with slight set back side pilasters. Projecting plinth. 3 irregularly spaced windows on 1st floor, glazing bar sashes with voussoir lintels. 2 modern glazing bar shop windows on ground floor, left hand tripartite with 2-5-2x3 panes and right hand 6x3 panes. Left hand doorway retains voussoir lintel. Return to Crow Lane: large gable end stone chimney stack on moulded corbelling over ground floor, (with dormered gable) and weathered capping. Extending north-east is a 2 storey circa 1650ish wing, presumably once jettied (ground floor is C19 brick); the 1st floor timber framed with 2 wide braced bays and early C19 oriel bays with glazing bar casements and cornices. Wide eaves. On ground floor, a 3-light segmental headed casement to left, central window with part of an earlier doorway with cornice and 3-pane overlight, and ledged door to right. Garden wall to left: about 7 ft high, 20 yds long, built of large rubble with brick lacing courses; segmental headed doorway adjacent to house. Interior: front room and hall now one; remains of moulded Jacobean panelling (rest removed to No 39 West Street qv); ceiling moulding; part of panelling to right obscures older fireplace; late C18 segmental hall arch adjacent. Timber braces in fireplace wall. Fire Insurance Mark 322563.

Listing NGR: SU0959031260