31 And 33, Broad Street

31 and 33 Broad Street is a former house and shop, now used as a shop. It dates from the 16th century and has been altered in the 18th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber-framed structure with rendered panels at the front, a stone rear wall, and a tiled roof. It has two bays, is two rooms deep, and stands two storeys tall with attics.

The left side facing the street has a main timber post that is faced up, supporting a shop front with canted ends under a jetty and a half-glazed door. There is another main post with a projecting, integral nosing and a bracket for the jetty at the top, which has been cut back. On the right side, there is a small canted bay with a flat top, a further half-glazed door, and a main post similar to the left side, but with the bracket intact. The first floor jetties out, with the framing exposed. The two unequal bays have the same design, featuring a central two-light window between the studs, with diagonal timbers rising to the main posts on either side. There is a central gabled dormer with a two-light casement.

Internally, the ground floor has hollow-chamfered beams and a timber-framed cross wall between the bays, with a blocked doorway that has a flat, pointed head. There is a similar blocked opening on the first floor leading to No 35. The stairs on the first floor landing have a moulded handrail and turned balusters. A double V strut truss is present in the gable towards No 29. Originally, the building was a one-room deep timber-framed house, much of which still survives, and it has been extended by one room over the full width at the rear.