85, High Street

No. 85 High Street is a shop with a former dwelling above, dating from the 16th or 17th century and remodelled around 1835 to 1840, with later 19th-century extensions. The building is timber-framed, faced and extended in red brick, and features a slate roof with gabled ends and a plain tile roof at the rear. The plan includes a one-bay timber-framed front range and a small one-bay timber-framed rear wing, which may have been added in the 17th century. The exterior is two storeys high with a two-window southeast front. The first floor has two 12-pane sash windows with stone cills and moulded cornice hoods supported by console brackets, along with a late 20th-century shop window and fascia. The rear brick wing has large mullion-transom windows with iron casements. Inside, the ceiling beams are boxed in, and there is 19th-century joinery along with one 18th-century two-panel door. The first floor features exposed tie-beam trusses on jowled storey-posts, with wall-framing visible in the rear wall of the right-hand chamber. The rear wing also displays exposed wall-framing, a tie-beam truss, and purlins, one of which is chamfered.