15, North Street

No. 15 North Street is a small house, likely built in the late 16th century, with an outshut added in the 18th or 19th century. The building features rendered rubble walls and a thatched roof that is half-hipped at both ends. There are two projecting rendered rubble chimney stacks, one on the left side and one at the front.

The house has a two-room plan with a central passage. To the left is a parlour, and to the right is a hall/kitchen heated by the front lateral stack. The larger room on the right seems to have had a newel staircase at the rear. The other room is heated by a gable end stack. A possible late 18th or early 19th century outshut is located at the rear of the larger room.

The building is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window front. All windows are mid-20th century metal frame two-light casements, except for the right-hand window on the first floor, which is an early 20th century blockwood door located to the left of centre under a slate porch hood. The chimney stack is to the right of this door, with a semicircular oven projection extending beyond it.

Inside, the left-hand room features a chamfered half-beam at the end wall with hollow step stops and a later fireplace. The doorway from the passage into this room has a square-headed wooden doorframe that is chamfered and shows worn hollow step stops. The right-hand room has a central cross-beam that is chamfered and rests on a wooden corbel at the front, although the stops are not visible. At the far end of this room is a chamfered half beam with hollow step stops and a wooden fireplace lintel that is chamfered with either run-out or worn stops, along with a stone oven on the left side.

The original roof trusses seem to be intact, with their feet visible in the first floor rooms, though they are plastered over and there is no access to the roof. These trusses are substantial, featuring apparently straight principals, threaded purlins, and what appears to be a morticed collar.