37 Church Street (EHER 38256)

A 16th and early 17th century timber framed house, with a front of part rendered brick and part render with some imitation timber framing. The roof is covered with plain tiles and the ridgeline is lower at the east end. The house is two storeys with attics and has 20th century flat-roofed extensions to the rear. There is a probably 18t century parallel two-storey range with a slacker-pitched plain tile roof to the rear of the house.

September 1971. Grade II listed. A 16th and early 17th century timber framed house, with a front of part rendered brick and part render with some imitation timber framing. The roof is covered with plain tiles and the ridgeline is lower at the east end. The house is two storeys with attics and has 20th century flat-roofed extensions to the rear. There is a probably 18t century parallel two-storey range with a slacker-pitched plain tile roof to the rear of the house. No.37 Church Street is a former open-hall house with a 16th century service cross-wing surviving at its east end. This has soffit-tenoned floor joists, jowled posts, and evidence for service doors and a central ground-floor partition. The roof is of simple collared rafter type and is of a small span. The east flank retains the repaired remains of a window with hollow-chamfered mullions, rebated for glazing and with mortices for intermediate small bars. There is a central 17th century chimney stack, much altered at the base, but with a remnant of mantel beam. The western part of the house is a two-storied rebuilding dating form the late 16th/early 17th century with substantial timber framing. <1> See photos <2>.