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The house was the oldest building in the block, but so badly ruined that many details of its ground-plan are doubtful. It seems to have been originally a rectangle, but two rooms in its north corner were at some time cut off and given over to No. 7, so that the existing plan is incomplete. The outer walls were of burnt brick (0.27 m. X 0.18 m. X 0.09 m.) with wide footings at their foundations, buried below floor level, giving a (standing) wall of twenty-three courses; the interior level was high and all internal walls had very solid foundations of mud brick on which the walls proper went up in burnt brick, but of the burnt brickwork very little survived anywhere and in many places it had disappeared altogether so that even the emplacements of the doors are conjectural. The front doorway faced up the turn of Church Lane; at a late period there was built in front of it a block of burnt-brick masonry which had no steps and left but little space between its corner and that of No. 2; it would seem therefore to have been no higher than the then level of the street and may have been the foundation of a porch outside the door.2
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