Stonecroft (EHER 38322)

An 18th and 19th century timber framed and rendered house, now an office. It has a slate half-hipped gambrel roof. The building is two storeys with attics and cellar and on an 'L-shaped' plan. To the rear is a block at a right-angle to the building which has a half-hipped plain tile roof. There is a two-storey 19th century rear extension in brick with a plain tile roof.

October 1951. Grade II listed. An 18th and 19th century timber framed and rendered house, now an office. It has a slate half-hipped gambrel roof. The building is two storeys with attics and cellar and on an 'L-shaped' plan. The ground floor has a central doorcase with ornate frieze, fluted Doric pilasters, triple keystone and rusticated wall surface. Either side there is a flat-roofed segmental bow window with small-paned sashes and thin fluted half-columns. The door is accessed by two stone steps and wrought-iron handrails. To the rear is a block at a right-angle to the building which has a half-hipped plain tile roof. There is a two-storey 19th century rear extension in brick with a plain tile roof. The building abuts No.20a High Street to the west and No.24a High Street (EHER 38324) to the east. Internally, the building has a three-unit plan, the centre with an open-well staircase with carved features. The walls have raised-and-fielded panelling up to dado level and beneath the stairs, and on flank of stairs this is framed between Doric pilasters. The first floor east room is fully panelled and has a plaster cornice. Other rooms have contemporary doors and architraves and simple plaster cornices. The windows to the western first floor room have internal folding shutters. <1> See photos <2>.