51-59, HIGH STREET

This is a late 17th-century house, incorporating an earlier timber-frame structure, with mid-18th century cottages added, and all have mid-to-late 20th-century alterations. The building is now five cottages. It is built of hammer-dressed stone with stone slate and pantile roofs.

The original house, now numbers 51 and 53, was originally a two-cell house with a central lobby-entry plan. It retains a doorway with tie-stone jambs and a segmental-arched lintel, although a cottage doorway has been inserted to the left end. There are three windows on each floor, with renewed stone lintels and sills. The gables have copings and kneelers. A central stone stack rises from the ridge.

Numbers 55 and 57 are single-cell cottages. Each has a doorway with a window above, and a plain window above that. A projecting band runs along the front, broken by an inserted bay window to number 57. They have coped gables and a central brick ridge stack, which is rendered.

Number 59 is set at a right angle to the rear of number 57 and has been largely remodelled. It features two bays of large 20th-century windows on each floor, and a doorway flanked by windows, with a window above. It has a central rendered ridge stack.

Inside number 53, there is a fireplace with a large, shallow-arched lintel and a chamfered surround. Other features include stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and large-scantling joists, supporting posts to a timbered arcade.