79 And 81, High Street

This building, at 79 and 81 High Street, is a house, now used as a house and shop, dating from the 17th century, with additions from the 19th century and later. It is timber-framed with plaster infill above a plastered ground floor. The roof is gabled, covered with renewed tiles, and features a brick end stack and rear stacks. The building has a three-unit plan, consisting of two gabled cross-wings. The cross-wings were originally jettied and now have 20th-century bargeboards and finials.

The exterior is two storeys plus an attic, with a three-window front. A central carriageway entrance has paired plank doors. It is flanked by hipped bay windows with cornices and hipped roofs. The bay windows have shaped slates and 1:3:1-light leaded glazing in moulded frames; the bay window on the right has a 20th-century fascia, and the entrance on the left has a glazed door. The first- and attic-floor windows project with narrow offsets and small-paned casements. The first floor has a central window with a two-light casement, a large window to the left with a three-light transomed casement with an iron opening casement and plate glass over the transom, and a window to the right with a three-light casement with an iron opening casement. Each end window has a small, blocked two-light mullioned window. The attic has windows with two-light casements in the gables. The timber framing is square, with straight braces. The left end has a bracket for the former jetty. The right return has a small first-floor light in an architrave. The rear has gabled wings.

The interior has not been inspected. No. 81 was first listed on April 5, 1967.