Excavation to the rear of No 43 by D W Williams for HAG located a well-preserved brick and stone built kiln, demolished c 1700, the lowest courses of a sub-circular stone well, backfilled in the 16th century, and part of a stone structure of the 13th or 14th century. The kiln was probably used for malting, and has been preserved beneath an access road to the new development. Observation and salvage on other parts of the site revealed near the main excavation a line of probably 14th century pottery water pipes, some 25 complete or nearly so and a lead sheet at one end of the line. This is probably the first in situ discovery of a medieval pipe drain in S England, or from a town. No 43A, part of a 17th century timber-framed building, was dismantled and removed by the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum. Beneath its floor excavation by D G Bird for SCC located a probably 13th century building wall, which was further examined by D W Williams for HAG. (174 and 175)