31, East Street

31 East Street is a house and shop with origins dating back to the late 17th century, featuring a shop front added in the late 19th or early 20th century. The building is constructed of plastered stone and cob, with the front elevation painted in Flemish bond brick and a slate roof topped with a brick chimney. The layout consists of one room wide and two rooms deep, with the front room heated by a stack on the right end wall and the rear room by a lateral stack at the back. The partition between the two rooms has been removed, and there is a likely 18th or 19th-century extension at the rear.

The exterior is two storeys high, with a symmetrical one-window front facing East Street, which was rebuilt in the early 19th century. The roof is hipped at the right end, featuring deep eaves supported by moulded brackets and a moulded string below. The first-floor centre window has a painted gauged brick flat arch and is fitted with an early 19th-century 20-pane sash. The late 19th-century shop front includes a projecting fascia and a moulded cornice that wraps around Dean Street, supported by a pilaster and gabled bracket. The central glazed door has a low fielded panel, and the shop windows on either side are each two-pane with moulded mullions and rounded outer corners.

On the Dean Street elevation, there is a 20th-century half-glazed door leading into the rear room, accompanied by two 20th-century windows above and one to the right of the door. The East Street elevation features a cast iron street sign with a pointing hand and a cast iron Dean Street sign affixed to the right return. Inside, both rooms showcase chamfered axial beams and exposed joists of large scantling, with evidence of the former partition visible on one cross beam. This building is one of the few remaining houses in the town that clearly displays evidence of its 17th-century or earlier origins, making it an important landmark.