18, East Street

This is a late 16th and early 17th century house, with earlier medieval origins. It has undergone significant alteration and refronting. The house is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a Ham Hill stone plinth and dressings. The roof is tiled, continuous with the adjacent property to the right, and features a brick stack positioned towards the centre. Originally, the house had a three-unit through-passage plan, with a central hall; the room to the right is now combined with the neighbouring property.

The exterior is now a three-window front. All windows have stone mullions and modern leaded lights, protected by stone hoods. A small, two-light window, dating from around 1990, is located above a plank door beneath a 1990s stone lintel on the right-hand side.

Inside, a beam in the passage retains evidence of an original plank-and-muntin screen. The former hall, located to the left, features an open fireplace with a chamfered arched lintel; the stone jambs are also chamfered with a step and run-out stops. A late 16th century six-panel framed ceiling with elaborate moulded beams is also present in this room. A further room, to the far left, accessed through a doorway cut into a beam, has a roughly shaped lateral beam. The staircase, likely 19th century, is positioned behind the fireplace, replacing an earlier 16th century staircase. On the first floor, a fireplace with an early to mid-19th century hob-grate is found in the corner to the right of the room.

The roof structure comprises late medieval collar trusses with jointed crucks, side pegs, a notch-in-apex to the ridge, and scarf-jointed trenched purlins. The truss to the left of centre is largely closed below the collar with wattle-and-daub, showing signs of smoke blackening. The shared wall with the neighbouring property has a tie-beam supporting the structural members, with the upper section filled with wattle-and-daub, visible also from the adjacent property.

The original house possessed an open hall. Later, in the 16th century, a fireplace, chimney stack, framed ceiling, and floor were added. In the late 18th century, the north walls were raised, the south wall was likely rebuilt, and a new, higher roof was installed.