Building record MDR10074 - 52-54 Main Street, Walton Upon Trent

Taylor's Cottages, 52 and 54 Main Street. Two cottages in a terrace of four, with a cruck truss dividing the two cottages. Late medieval date. In excellent condition, having been modernised. (1) Listed, grade II. Hall and cross wing, later three cottages and now two houses. The cottages contain the remains of a C15/C16 timber-framed house. The interior was recorded in 1998 when substantial remains of a cruck truss and timber framing in the rear wall and west wall of no. 52 was seen. No 54 formed the cross wing of the late medieval house. It contains, among other things, substantial remains of the timber-framed cross wall, with posts, bressumer, studs and braces to tie beam, and principal rafters. The cross wing may have been heated by a lateral stone chimney stack. (2)