22, High Street

No. 22 High Street is a house dating from around 1660 that was recently restored in 1984. It features clear red brick with some burnt brick on the side walls. The house has steeply pitched tiled roofs with repaired end parapets supported by moulded brick kneelers at the gables of the crosswings. There are end stacks located at the rear of the crosswings. The building has a half H-plan and consists of two storeys and attics. Each gable end has a 20th-century casement window above a brick band at eaves height, which extends over a segmental arch leading to the first-floor casements of each crosswing. The tympanum of these arches is filled with yellow bricks. The doorway is off-centre and likely leads to an entry and stair bay at the low end of the hall. A plain band separates the storeys, and there are yellow gault brick arches above three 20th-century casements. The interior has not been seen. This house may be linked to Dutch prisoners of war who contributed to the construction of the New Bedford River and remained in Over after peace was established in 1654.