36 And 38, High Street

This is a three-storey house, originally a cafe, and now a shop, with a basement. It dates to 1677, but was remodelled in the late 18th century. The exterior is rendered, likely over brick, with a brick addition to the rear. Timber framing may be incorporated within the structure. It has a plain tile roof, hipped on the right side, and an integral brick end stack to the left, with the upper portion rebuilt around 1900 on a base of dressed grey sandstone. The facade features tripartite glazing bar sash windows with stone sills and slightly segmental heads. A shop front dating from around 1900 has plate-glass windows, a recessed pair of half-glazed doors with engraved glass, flanked by panelled pilasters, and a deep fascia. A wrought-iron sign bracket is positioned between the second-floor windows. At the rear, there's an 18th-century three-storey addition with a plat band.

The ground floor was remodelled around 1900, once housing Fulgoni's Cafe on the ground and first floors. The first and second-floor rooms have ovolo-moulded beams with ogee stops. A particularly elaborate oak L-plan staircase, dating to 1677, has half landings, angled balustrades, a pulvinated closed string, rectangular-section balusters, a grip handrail, and square newel posts with bulbous finials and pendants. A flight of stairs from the ground floor was removed around 1900, and a later attic flight was altered to turn 90 degrees. A fireplace from around 1690 to 1700, with a bolection-moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze, and moulded cornice, is on the right side of the first-floor front room. A later, around 1900, wooden fireplace of "Seventeenth-Century style" is on the left, incorporating figures, pilasters, a guilloche frieze, and a carved cornice. A room that was originally a single space is now divided by a folding screen from around 1900. A dado rail is also present. Other first-floor features include a half-glazed café door from around 1900 and a 19th-century cast-iron grate. The ground-floor rear room, top-lit and dating from around 1900, has a frieze with husk swags. The basement retains a pair of 17th-century ovolo-moulded beams. While the facade was altered, likely in the late 18th century, the moulded string course and cornice probably date from the 17th century, suggesting the building has always been of brick construction, perhaps with timber-framed internal walls. A datestone, which has been recorded elsewhere, was not observed during the survey in November 1986.