28, High Street

No. 28 High Street is a shop that was likely a former house, dating from around the 16th century and remodelled in the 1830s. It features a timber-framed structure faced in red brick, with the front range built in Flemish bond, brick dentil eaves, a rendered gable end, and a slate roof. The rear wing has a plain tile roof with a gabled end, and the building is L-shaped in plan. The 3-bay rear wing from the 16th century may have originally been open to the roof and was floored in the 17th century. The front range, which has a two-room plan, was added and rebuilt parallel to the street in the 1830s. The rear wing was extended in the early 19th century and again later in the 19th century.

The building is two storeys tall and has a symmetrical three-window east front. The larger ground floor windows feature plate glass, while the first floor has 16-pane sash windows from the 19th century, with a blind centre window that is round-headed. The central doorway is also round-arched, with a semi-circular fanlight above and a glazed and panelled door, all with rubbed brick arches. The rear of the front range includes a 19th-century 16-pane sash window. The rear wing has two and three-light casements with glazing bars and plank doors. To the left (west) is a later 19th-century coach house and stable, which has double doors and a bay-loft door.

Inside, the rear wing features a moulded wooden chimney-piece from the late 18th or early 19th century and a chamfered cross-beam in the ground floor room. The chamber above has an exposed tie-beam and wind brace. The roof over the rear wing consists of three bays supported by three trusses made of heavy scantling, with tie-beams, queen posts with collars, clasped purlins, curved wind braces, and common rafters without a ridgepiece. There is evidence of some smoke-blackening on the roof timbers.