8, Chamberlain Street

No. 8 Chamberlain Street is a house dating from the 15th century and the early 19th century. The front of the building is rendered and colourwashed, with a concrete tiled roof between coped gables and brick chimney stacks. It features an early 19th century front block, with a 15th century open hall range set at a right angle to the rear.

The exterior is two storeys high, with three bays. There is a plinth and a dentilled cornice with a secret gutter. The windows are sash windows with moulded box frames, in plain openings, with 12 panes to the ground floor and 8 panes to the first floor. The front door, in the third bay, is a six-panel door with a rectangular cast-iron fanlight above, framed by a timber architrave with a pediment hood on console brackets. The rear range has a 15th-century roof structure.

The interior was not inspected, but the rear range contains a 15th-century roof with two trusses of 2-tiered crucks, purlins, windbraces, a cranked collar with cusped arch braces, and plank-like common rafters, all smoke blackened. One truss has a chamfered ogee profile to the arch-braced tie beam and principal rafters, with morticed purlins surmounted by the upper cruck. An intermediate truss has clasped purlins and mortices for windbracing.