36 And 38 And Attached Walls And Railings

A house, likely dating from the 16th or early 17th century, was remodelled in the mid-19th century and is now divided into two houses. The building is constructed from limestone rubble, with roughcast applied to the first floor. It has a steep pantile roof and brick stacks to the right and centre. Originally, it was probably a 3-unit through-passage plan, but was remodelled in the 19th century into two 2-unit plans. The windows have margin panes, forward frames, and wooden lintels. The ground-floor windows are 6/6-pane sashes, and those above are 3/6-pane sashes, some with old glass. The mid-19th-century doors have two vertical panels with glazed tops, set within fretted, trellised, and pedimented porches. The rear of the building includes a lower, two-storey lean-to with 20th-century windows, and one 19th-century casement window with small panes. Inside the right-hand house, No. 38, are remaining features of the earlier house including a chamfered beam to the right-hand room, a quartered ceiling to the left-hand room (which is partly below an upper room to the right of No. 40), and a jointed cruck to the room above. Attached to the right is a limestone rubble wall with Ham Hill stone capping, surmounted by spearhead railings to the front, with urn finials and a matching working gate with a semi-circular top half.