118, Watling Street East

No. 118 Watling Street East is a shop with accommodation above, originally built around the 16th century and remodelled in the 19th century. The building features a timber-framed structure that is rendered, with the front either refaced or rebuilt in brick. It has gable-ended roofs, with slate on the front and plain tiles at the rear, and a brick axial stack. The plan consists of a long range that runs at right angles to the road, with the front section, facing southwest, having been rebuilt in the 19th century. The building is three storeys high and has a symmetrical one-window front. The shop front is from the 20th century, and there is a canted first-floor bay window above it, featuring a moulded cornice and a 20th-century casement window on the second floor. At the rear, there is a three-storey wing with a brick gable end stack, along with an attached two-storey wing that has a later extension.

Inside, the first floor has a chamfered intersecting beam ceiling and a winder staircase leading from the first to the second floor of the rear range. The rear wing retains three trusses with a bay roof. Trusses B, C, and D have chamfered arched bracing to cambered collars, and truss D features arched bracing that springs from below the wall plate level, supported by carved wooden shield corbels. This truss may be a jointed raised cruck truss. The ridge-piece is diagonally set, trenched into the apex of truss C, and threaded through trusses B and D, with chamfered butt purlins and curved wind-braces. The ridge-piece is truncated where the front range has been rebuilt, aligning it parallel to the road. Notably, the surviving three bays of the original rear range were open to the roof from the first or ground floors, and the rebuilt front range was likely always three storeys tall.