2, Church Street

No. 2 Church Street is a small house dating from the 15th and early 16th centuries, with alterations made in the 19th century and later. It features a timber frame with curved braces on the front elevation and mostly 19th-century brick nogging, including some herringbone patterns. The house has a rubble stone plinth and a stack of slender red bricks located on the right bay, topped with a tiled roof.

The building consists of three bays, is two storeys high, and has a cellar. The upper floor juts out over the road and is supported by a finely moulded bressumer. The ground floor includes a small paned paired timber casement window and a single fixed leaded light set in a metal frame. On the first floor, there are 20th-century paired leaded casements. The door is located in the left bay, framed by a doorcase with a four-centred head and carved spandrels. The right gable reveals part of the roof truss with an arched braced collar. The rear features 20th-century timber casements.

Inside, the house has a three-bay frame. The ground floor has chamfered beams with double stops supported by hefty braces. The fireplace bressumer is partly covered. The upper floor originally formed a single chamber, but a new ceiling was inserted and strengthened between 2003 and 2004, which involved cutting into previously truncated tie beams on knee braces, possibly indicating a false hammerbeam roof. The roof itself is very fine, featuring three open trusses with large arch braces connecting the collar to the rafters. The central truss is smoke blackened, although the wattle and daub panel above it remains unaffected. The roof also includes curved tension braces and arched wind braces to the purlins.

This impressive upper chamber is believed to have served as the solar of a larger building.