37 High Street

Timber-framed house constructed during the late-C16 or early-C17 and altered during the C19 and C20 with the insertion of a timber shopfront and infilling of the timber framing with brick.

MATERIALS: the building is of timber-framed construction with C20 brick infill. There is a C19 timber shopfront and a plain tiled roof.

PLAN: the building occupies a rectangular plan with its narrower elevations fronting the High Street to the west and Butchers Row to the east.

EXTERIOR: the building is three storeys in height plus basement across a single bay onto the High Street and Butchers Row, under a gable roof to the east and west. The C19 shopfront to the principal, west elevation comprises a plate-glass window with central moulded timber mullion and iron fittings to take shutters, with a panelled stallriser beneath and a half-canted, recessed entrance to the left (north) containing a half-glazed and panelled door. The window and entrance are framed by a pair of moulded pilasters with console brackets rising to a moulded cornice over a plain fascia. The first and second floors have close studding and are jettied, with moulded bressumers to the second floor and gable, and scroll brackets to the second-floor bressumer. There is an early-C20 sash window on the first floor with two-over-two glazing and horns set within a moulded timber surround. There is a smaller sash window to the attic room of a similar design to the first-floor window, partially set within an original opening. There are plain, C20 bargeboards and a spearhead finial to the gable roof.

The ground floor of the rear (east) elevation onto Butchers Row is of late-C20 brickwork and contains a doorway blocked with sheet metal. There is a single, two-pane sash window set within a moulded frame on the first floor, and a pair of C20 timber casements set within original openings on the second floor, with a mullion between the two. The gable is jettied with a moulded bressumer and carries a C20 timber casement.

INTERIOR: the interior is understood to contain exposed ceiling beams, chamfered frame-posts and studs to the rear ground-floor wall.