Nayland

After the church, Pevsner starts with "The hub of the village is Alston Court, a fine and varied house with great surprises. It lies at the S end of the N-S run of Church Street, where this turns E to lead to the church and beyond. The front is plastered and has a W gable, a big doorway of c1700 with a semicircular deeply apsed hood on big carved brackets, a spectacular early C16 nine-light window with two transoms, and an E gable with timbers showing too, and brick nogging." Seen here:

"But the great surprise is the E wing as seen from the courtyard. It also has brick-nogging, and in addition carved bressumers, several oriel windows, and elegant buttress- and angle-posts. The hall has a big eight-light window also towards the courtyard. More exposed timber-framing in the other wings. The dates not certain, but it is assumed that the E wing dates from the later C15." The E side is partly visible over the wall:

In more detail, the door (below left) and the nine-light window (below right):

"From Alston Court Church Street runs past the S side of the church and ends by the handsome timber-framed White House." Seen here:

And here the side of the Queens Head along the mill stream:

"To the E the stream continues between the house of Fenn Street, a very pretty sight." As can be seen here:

"From the N end of Church Street to the E, Birch Street with several good timber-framed houses with jutting upper floors. Pevsner did not identify them but here are some in Birch Street:

Finally: "to the W Bear Street, with the Butcher's Arms (carved bressumer)" - below left - "and opposite a house with a date 1690 in a pargetted cartouche." (below right):