5, High Street

No. 5 High Street is a house dating from the early 18th century, with later alterations and additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of grey-brown brick in Flemish bond and features a pantile roof. The building has a two-room central entrance-hall plan, with a through-passage to the left and a single-room wing at the rear right, along with a later outshut for stairs and an extension to the wing.

The house stands two storeys tall and has six bays. The entrance, located in the fourth bay, is accessed by two stone steps leading to a doorcase with panelled pilasters and scrolled consoles that support a dentilled pediment. The entrance features a six-panelled door and a plain overlight set within an architrave. The ground floor has 19th-century four-pane sash windows in slightly recessed wooden architraves, with flat arches that have projecting sills and painted rubbed-brick flat arches topped with projecting ashlar keystones. To the left, the passage entrance has a six-panelled door and a plain overlight beneath a similar arch.

On the first floor, original 12-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars are present, along with a blind recessed window in the first bay, all set in similar surrounds. The roof has a stone-coped parapet and a swept design.

Inside, the house features chamfered oak ceiling beams with ogee stops and exposed joists. A mid-18th-century two-flight return staircase has a ramped corniced handrail and column-on-vase balusters with square knops. There are also a pair of half-domed alcoves flanking the fireplace on the ground floor right, with keyed architraves and Gothick glazing over panelled doors. The stairhall has a moulded plaster cornice. The roof structure consists of a good pegged oak collared rafter roof with clasped purlins, spanning seven bays in the front range and continuing over the rear wing. The building also contains brick cellars with a tunnel-vaulted entrance passage.