48 AND 49

48 and 49 are a pair of houses located in Alciston Village. They likely date from the 15th century and were originally built as a three-bay open hall. In the early 17th century, the building was modified to create a lobby entrance house, which involved adding a ceiling to the hall and a chimney stack. At this time, a separately framed two-bay cross wing was added. The exterior is clad in flint with red brick dressings, and the roof is very steeply pitched, covered with peg tiles, and features gablets and an off-center brick stack. The building has one storey and attics, forming an L-shape.

The ground floor primarily features 20th-century casement windows, and there is a hipped flint and brick porch with a modern wooden door. The rear elevation includes a 19th-century metal casement window and a plank door. The cross wing displays some diaper brickwork on the ground floor of the gable, along with three 20th-century casements and two modern dormers, one of which is hipped.

Inside, the original hall house retains two square crown posts, each supported by two foot braces and an arched brace to the collar beam. The first floor features exposed jowled posts and an arched brace. The central room on the ground floor has an early 17th-century chamfered bressumer over an open fireplace, which shows rushlight marks, along with a bread oven arch opening and an alcove, all set on a brick floor. The ground floor also includes a chamfered spine beam and floor joists. The early 17th-century cross wing, framed separately, has an arched brace roof. The first-floor room here has jowled posts and a ceiling with a chamfered axial beam that has run-out stops, as well as similar floor joists. Some square framing with a curved tension brace is exposed, along with an original window opening now decorated with 20th-century turned balusters. The ground floor features an exposed chamfered beam and an 18th-century curved brick fireplace.