39 High Street

Timber-framed house constructed during the late-C16 or early-C17, altered during the C18. A shopfront was inserted in the late-C19 or early-C20, along with alterations to windows and interiors.

MATERIALS: the building’s west (High Street) elevation is rendered and its east (Butchers Row) elevation is of painted brickwork. The original timber frame structure is understood to survive behind the facades. The shopfront is of timber and glass, and the roof covering is plain tile.

PLAN: the building occupies a rectangular plot with a principal elevation to the west on the High Street and a rear elevation to the east on Butchers Row.

EXTERIOR: the building is of three storeys plus basement across a single bay to its east and west elevations, under a gable roof. There is a late-C19 or early-C20 shopfront to the High Street frontage, which comprises a large, plate glass shop window over a moulded timber stallriser, framed by beaded pilasters, with a half-canted, recessed entrance to the south containing a C20 door and a plain overlight. The window frame carries brackets for fitting external shutters. Over the shop window and entrance is a moulded fascia board with console brackets carrying a moulded, flat hood. The first and second floors each have a single, centrally-placed, timber casement of the mid to late-C20. Above the second-floor window, the gable is jettied with plain boxing-in of the bressumer and eaves and plain, modern bargeboards.

INTERIOR: the interior is understood to contain exposed chamfered and moulded ceiling beams.