11, 15 (The Thatched Cottage) and 19, High Street

The property comprises three cottages located on the south side of High Street, Melbourne. The building shows development across several periods, from the 15th century through the early 18th century and the 19th century, with numerous alterations made throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The construction utilizes a cruck timber frame, largely encased in red brick, along with red brick and some stone rubble. The roofs are thatched on the western portion, with two tall brick stacks on the northern pitch, and slate on the remainder with a central brick ridge stack and two brick ridge stacks to the south.

The building is arranged as a four-bay cruck range of single storey and attic height to the west, a two-storey, three-bay section from the early 18th century set at a right angle to the west, and a further three-bay, two-storey 19th-century addition to the south.

The north elevation, facing the street, features a gabled section from the early 18th century, containing a large 19th-century shop front and a segmental-headed doorcase with a panelled door. Above the shop front, a central segmental-headed three-light horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars is present. The thatched part to the west has three similar windows. A small segmental-headed fixed-pane window sits between the two eastern windows and a two-light sash window sits within a former doorcase between the western two. An eyebrow dormer, containing a matching two-light window, sits above this last window.

The east elevation has an early 18th-century cottage to the north, with a segmental-headed two-light casement window and a wide segmental-headed opening now filled with a glazed screen and door. Above, there is a small, off-centre oval window, a flat-headed two-light horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars to the north, and a similar three-light window to the south. The 19th-century addition to the south has a stone rubble base with two three-light small-paned casements on the ground floor, a central single-light window, and three two-light casements on the first floor. The west gable wall displays an exposed full cruck truss with a crossed apex and ridge purlin, two high collars, and single butt purlins.

The interior reveals further cruck trusses and low-beamed ceilings, alongside a large inglenook fireplace with panelled cupboards in the early 18th-century section.