Building record 1363200000 - 14-15 Halton Village

To the north-west of the church is nos 14 and 15 Halton Village (now one dwelling). Situated some distance back from the road behind a substantial hedge, the building is situated at a slight angle to the road and very close to the dense hedge which marks the north-west boundary with the canal towpath. The building, which is late 19th or early 20th century, is rendered with a steeply pitched tiled roof, symmetrical gables with applied timber framing and prominent chimneystacks (B1).
This building was originally a two-bay structure, with three lightweight principal-rafter with tiebeam and collar trusses, with central fireplace, probably always of two floors plus an attic. The principal rafters support single through-purlins, these in turn supporting ten light common rafter pairs (without collars) in each bay. Straight braces rise to the purlins from the principal rafters (removed on the middle truss), morticed to the rafters but simply pegged to the backs of the purlins. The trusses are supported by main wall posts braced to the wall plates and formerly to the tiebeams. Dendro-dating gave a felling date of 1678/9 for the roof timbers (B2).