112, High Street

This is a late 16th-century timber-framed house with a plain clay tile roof, significantly altered in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The original building comprised a front room with a smaller room behind; the front room was likely originally jettied on the first floor and underbuilt when a shop front was inserted in the late 19th century. A two-bay extension was added to the rear in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

The building presents a gable front to the street, with roughcast and rendered walls to the original section and painted brick with clay tile roofs to the later addition. The front elevation has a late 19th-century shop front with large windows and a half-glazed door with an overlight. A later 20th-century fascia covers the original moulded fascia. The first floor features a lead-roofed canted bay window with plate glass sashes and decorative pilasters, supported by moulded brackets. A flush four-panel door and a two-light mullioned window are located on the left return. 19th-century casement windows with a half-dormer are found on the C18/C19 addition. The right return, visible above the catslide roofslope, has two four-paned sash windows on the first floor.

Inside, the original timber frame is exposed on the right wall of the front room, displaying deeply chamfered cross and spine beams, and heavily jowled corner posts. Close studding extends to the smaller room behind, also with a chamfered cross beam and a corner post with redundant mortices facing into the room. The staircase has a remodelled ground-to-first-floor flight with stick balusters, a moulded handrail, and ball finials to the newels on the first floor. A cupboard above the balustrade features a panelled door with butterfly hinges, leading to a former continuation of the staircase to an inaccessible attic; the base of a principal rafter and a curved windbrace are visible on the landing. A beam with empty mortices beneath and a corner post with redundant mortices indicate the original position of the back wall of the rear room on the first floor. The extension to the rear includes a large chimneybreast with a moulded surround around an infilled fireplace. A four-panel door provides access to a cupboard area, and a planked door with strap-hinges, now bricked behind, suggests access to a demolished building to the east.

The White Hart has been known since 1605. No. 112 and The Old White Hart are not internally connected, but an examination of their roof structures might shed light on their relationship.