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Stuart (1603-1714)

1603-1714

Behind the 18th-century ashlar façade, rebuilt in the 1970s after a collapse, is a 5-bay late medieval house, whose roof has principal-rafter truss

Beams and a 16th-century doorhead with a four-centred arch, both in the side passage, suggest a medieval origin for this house, but no details are

A substantial house occupied this large site by 1665, when it had at least 10 fireplaces.

 The stone archway to the street is late 14th-century, and though it may have been reset, parts of the house are medieval.

Built probably around 1500 for an unknown owner, this must have been quite a grand house, its long rubblestone façade straddling two medieval plots

This narrow cottage (now a shop) occupies a small plot probably severed from No. 67 next door.

The building retains a Tudor-arched fireplace and probably the roof from an earlier structure: the roof’s 'waney' ridge suggests pre-17th-century t

The Bear Inn was established here probably in the late 1640s by Thomas Matthews (died 1680).

The double-gabled smooth stone frontage of c.1903 conceals remains of another medieval house.

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