33 And 35, East Street

33 and 35 East Street is a house located in Ashburton, likely dating from the 17th century or earlier, and remodeled in the 19th century. The front is solidly rendered, and it has a slated roof with a chimney on the rear wall to the left, with pots just visible behind the ridge. The building appears to be two rooms wide with a central entrance, but the broad frontage suggests it may have originally been a three-room-and-through-passage house. It stands two storeys high and is four windows wide, with the right-hand section slightly set back and probably rebuilt in the 19th century. To the left of the doorway are two wide windows, likely former shop windows, and above them are two 8-paned sash windows of differing widths, set in recessed box-frames. To the right of the doorway is a plain 20th-century window, followed by a two-light wood casement window (three panes per light) with a plain transom-light, which was probably added later. Above this are two wood casements, each with two lights and three panes per light. The interior has not been inspected, but one roof truss observed during building work on No. 31 in 1977 appears to be an unblackened truss from the 16th or 17th century.