27 And 28, High Street

27 and 28 High Street is a town house that has been converted into a shop. The front dates from around 1800 but is attached to an earlier building, likely from around 1600, with parts of the rear surviving from the fire of 1595. The structure is made of brick and timber-frame with stucco cladding and features a hipped tile roof at one end, along with a large brick chimney at the rear of the ridge. It stands three storeys tall with an attic and has a three-window range. The eaves are plain, and there is a 20th-century shop front. The upper floors include windows with sills and sashes framed by wood architraves; the first floor has 12-pane sashes, the second floor has 6-pane sashes and one two-light leaded casement, and the attic features two gabled dormers with two-light leaded glazing. The rear of the building has two gables and a bow window to the right of a two-storey wing, which has wall posts on the ground floor and a jettied first floor supported by flat joists. The first floor is roughcast with visible rafter ends. This building was originally part of the property of Thomas Rogers of Harvard House, and it is connected to the range at the rear of Nos 59 and 60 Ely Street.