13, Church Street

No. 13 Church Street is a house in a row that dates from the early to mid-17th century but was rebuilt after a fire around 1985. It features a timber frame with rectangular-panelled upper floors and close-studding on the other floors, with plaster infill. The rear is constructed of brick, and it has a tiled roof with brick stacks. The building has a street front with three jettied storeys and a throughway to the left. The main structure and wing were largely rebuilt after the fire.

The house has four storeys and one window. The third floor features a six-light casement window with a transom, which slightly projects from the square-panel framework. On the first and second floors, there is a wide canted oriel window with a configuration of 1:5:1 lights plus a transom, framed in narrow vertical panels, and below the second-floor lights, there is square decorative panelling. The ground floor has a late 19th-century shop front with three casements on each side, above a stall riser made of herring-bone patterned two-coloured bricks. The framing members, window mullions, and transoms all have ovolo-mould edges. The jetties are supported by scrolled end brackets and feature moulded bressumer fronts and returns, along with a moulded eaves cornice. Entrances are accessed from the throughway.

Inside, some original framing remains, including heavy transverse beams, but the interior is mostly a late 20th-century reconstruction. Despite the alterations, the front of the building remains an important feature of the street and is a fine example of a timber-framed town house front from its period.