18, High Street

No. 18 High Street is a house built around 1550 for John Fuller, with alterations made around 1660. The building features a timber frame, which is partly exposed at the gable end facing the road, while most of the exterior is covered in plaster. It has a tiled roof that includes original moulded barge-boarding and a pendant at the gable end. There is a red brick side stack on the rear wall from around 1660, which has stepped offsets and two partly rebuilt octagonal stacks with moulded brick caps and octagonal bases. A later stack is located at the south gable end. The house is two storeys tall.

Originally, the front wall had mid-16th century window openings with moulded mullions, but now features three mid to late 20th century casements on the first floor. The ground floor originally had three doorways with four-centred arches, which have since been replaced by modern doorways. The rear wall retains part of one mid-16th century window with moulded mullions.

Inside, the original layout consists of three bays and two rooms, with the partition wall extending from the ground floor to the roof space. The parlour contains intersecting main beams that are carved with running foliate ornament on the chamfer and three roll mouldings on the soffit. There is a fireplace from around 1660, which may be a replacement, featuring red brick with a four-centred arch and ovolo moulding. The presence of pey holes in the middle rail and wall plate suggests that original studwork was removed when the chimney was added. A similar fireplace is located on the first floor. The adjoining room has exposed stop-chamfered joists laid flat, and the framing consists of closely set studwork with downward wall bracing. The main posts have jowled heads, and both first-floor chambers are open to the roof, which is constructed with clasped side purlins and paired wind bracing.