NHER 30671 (Building record) - Nos 2 and 4 Town Green

July 1972. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Shop and flats. Late 16th-century origins, much altered and changed, particulary late 19th century. Timber-framed with brick. Plaintiled roof to front and pantiled to rear. Two storeys and attic. No 2 is a house in three bays: central 20th-century door with fluted timber doorcase and hood with one horned tripartite sash left and right.
No 4 consists of a late 19th-century double-fronted shop entered through a central door with glazed display windows either side. Underbuilt bressumer to first floor jetty still evident. False timber studwork to first floor. No 3 irregularly disposed sashes light first floor appartments, with glazing bars to upper sashes only. Gabled roof with a gable-end stack to south and a ridge stack left of centre. Rear has a two-storey cross wing running east from south end.
Interior - Ground floor front with sunk quadrant longitudinal bridging beam continuing through both properties. Jowled principal studs. To rear at first floor remains two lights of an ovolo-moulded mullioned window. Roof of cross wing 19th century."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2021.

Late 16th century timber frame with underbuilt bressumer. Off-centre stack, rear crosswing. Facade has 19th century shop. Interior has overall sunk quadrant bridging beam (=spine beam? E. Rose). Expanded principal studs. At rear first floor, two lights remain of an ovolo moulded window.
Information from 1994 listed building description (S1).
E. Rose (NLA), 17 June 1994.

Architects plans (1997) in file.