162, High Street

No. 162 High Street is a house, now functioning as a museum, dating from the late 17th century and restored in the 20th century. The building features painted rendered stone with ashlar dressings and a roof made of pantiles, topped with a brick chimney. It has an end passage plan and is a single storey with an attic, presenting a two-window range.

There is a step up to a renewed boarded door located on the left in a shallow recess. To the right of the passage door, there is a small fire window positioned high in the wall, which has a label mould above it, as well as above two casement windows that have three renewed lights with lattice leading. A dormer emerges from the eaves, featuring a three-light mullioned casement under a high gable, supported by side corbels at the coping. The roof includes a tall renewed chimney to the right of the door.

The interior has not been inspected, but it is noted to have a fire beam visible approximately one meter in front of the left cross wall, with joists extending across it. A survey conducted in 1972, with drawings from 1977, indicates that the interior consists of two units and suggests there was once a third unit to the north of the cross passage. The survey shows a stair located at the rear wall, accessible from the passage and the principal room, as well as two first-floor rooms. The roof structure features principals that are morticed and tenoned into the tie beam, with a purlin supported on the projecting ends of a collar, tied by spurs to the walls. The plated collar yoke carries a diagonally-set square ridge piece. This construction is suggested to represent a regional transitional stage between the cruck and the tie beam truss.