87, Church Street

No. 87 Church Street is a small house that is part of a row, featuring an early 19th-century front and a 16th-century rear wing. The building is constructed of painted Flemish bond brickwork with a tile roof and brick stacks. It has two storeys and a basement, with a single window on the front. The first floor has a 16-pane sash window, while the ground floor features a plate glass sash window, both set within painted V-joint voussoirs and a stone cill. To the left of the entrance is a six-panel 19th-century door topped by a deep plain transom-light, with a slight step down to the inner glazed door. The building has a high coped parapet and a large rendered stack on the right side.

At the back, there is a long, low two-storey framed wing that is faced in brick and has a weatherboarded gable, also with a tile roof and brick stacks. Inside, although the front half of the house has undergone significant modifications, the rear half retains considerable fragments of the original timber framework. At the back of the throughway, there is an early plank and batten door, and heavy posts remain, including one on the upper floor that is chamfered and has a jowelled top, supporting a slightly cambered tie-beam. Fire hearths are located to the right in two front rooms, set diagonally. A late 18th-century dogleg stair with square newels and turned balusters runs transversely, and the first-floor landing features very wide floorboards. The rear wall of the main building is constructed in square panel framing, with a post to the right of the throughway on the ground floor, along with an 18th-century doorcase with an architrave and a cambered door-head on the first floor. The front room on the first floor has a two-plank door, likely from the 17th century. The cellar stair is of the standard 'Tewkesbury' type, with brick treads faced in timber, and the rear half of the cellar has a segmental brick vault. This building was previously known as the Farriers' Arms.