51A, High Street

No 51A on High Street is an office building that was formerly a house. It dates from the 17th century, with possible earlier elements and some alterations made in the 20th century. The structure is built of limestone rubble and features remnants of a cruck frame, topped with a thatched roof. It has one storey with an attic. The ground floor includes a wide 20th-century square bay window with glazing bars, and there are two thatched dormers in the attic. The doorway on the right has plain reveals, and there is a chimney on the left-hand gable. The left-hand gable wall has an attic window with two small chamfered lights cut from a single stone.

Inside, the earlier part of the building is now a single room. There is a stone inglenook fireplace with a timber bressumer against the left-hand gable wall. A single central cruck truss has had its original tie-beam cut through, and a 20th-century raised tie-beam and collar have been bolted to it. The attic floor has been removed, and the building is ceiled at collar level. The rafters, purlins, and wind-braces are exposed, although some of the timber appears to have been renewed.