Listed Building: No.118 Watling Street East (1261744)

Shop with accomodation above, original use not known. Circa C16, remodelled in C19. Timber framed, rendered and front refaced or rebuilt in brick. Gable-ended roofs; slate at front, plain tiled at rear. Brick axial stack. Plan: Long range at right angles to road, the front, south west, section of which was rebuilt in C19. 3 storeys. Symmetrical 1 window front. C20 shop front, canted first floor bay window above with moulded cornice and C20 casement on second floor. 3 storey wing at rear with bri . ck and attached 2 storey wing with later extension. Interior: Chamfered intersecting beam ceiling on first floor and winder staircase from first to second floor of rear range. 3 1/2 bay roof survives in rear wing. Trusses B C and D have chamfered arched bracing to cambered collars; arched bracing to truss D (possibly over upper end chamber) spring from below wall plate level from carved wooden shield corbels; perhaps a jointed raised cruck truss; diagonally set ridge-piece, tren . of truss C and threaded through trusses B and D; chamfered butt purlins with curved wind braces. The ridge-piece truncated where front range has been rebuilt at right angles to it and parallel to road. Note: The surviving 3 1/2 bays of the original rear range were open to the roof from the first or ground floors and the rebuilt front range was probably always 3 storeys.

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