107 AND 109, HIGH STREET

A house, now a restaurant and shop, dating from the late 16th century, with later alterations and additions. The building is timber-framed and built on a plinth of dressed sandstone blocks, with a plain tile roof and a brick ridge stack of cruciform section. It has a U-shaped plan, featuring a three-bay baffle-entry main range with projecting cross-wings to the west. The house is two storeys high, with gabled cross-wings to the left and right, featuring jettied first floors and moulded bressumers supported on angle brackets. The first floor of the wings displays decorative framing consisting of small square panels with square blocks at the intersections, each containing a sunken quatrefoil. The left-hand cross-wing has a jettied gable with an ovolo-moulded tie beam, angle brackets, and small square panel framing. The front incorporates a 1:3:1 window arrangement with 20th-century casements, a 20th-century shop front on the ground floor of the right-hand wing, and a 20th-century door to the left of centre. A carriageway is located immediately to the left of the right-hand wing, revealing exposed close-studded framing in the side walls. This accesses the rear, where a mid-17th century wing is visible, characterized by square panel framing. The interior features exposed close-studded wall framing and ceiling beams.