37 High Street

This is a late 16th or early 17th century timber-framed house that has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a timber shopfront inserted and much of the timber framing filled in with brick. The building is rectangular in plan, with its narrower sides facing onto High Street to the west and Butchers Row to the east.

The building is constructed of timber framing with 20th-century brick infill. It has a 19th-century timber shopfront and a plain tiled roof. The west-facing High Street elevation has a three-story plus basement frontage and a gable roof to the east and west. The shopfront features a plate-glass window with a central moulded timber mullion and iron fittings for shutters, a panelled stallriser beneath, and a recessed entrance to the left (north) with a half-glazed and panelled door. The window and entrance are framed by moulded pilasters with console brackets rising to a moulded cornice over a plain fascia. The first and second floors are jettied and have close studding, with a moulded bressumer to the second floor and gable, and scroll brackets to the second-floor bressumer. A sash window with two-over-two glazing and horns sits on the first floor in a moulded timber surround. A smaller sash window of similar design is in the attic room, partially within an original opening. The roof has plain, 20th-century bargeboards and a spearhead finial.

The rear (east) elevation onto Butchers Row has late 20th-century brickwork on the ground floor, containing a blocked doorway with sheet metal. The first floor has a single, two-pane sash window within a moulded frame, and the second floor has a pair of 20th-century timber casements set within original openings, with a mullion between them. The gable is jettied with a moulded bressumer and has a 20th-century timber casement.

The interior is believed to contain exposed ceiling beams, chamfered frame-posts, and studs visible on the rear ground-floor wall.