68, High Street

No. 68 High Street is a house dating from the late 16th century, with minor alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has a timber-framed structure that is rendered, with some brick casing on the rear wall, and features a steeply pitched cement-tiled roof. The stack is made of clunch and brick and serves the hall range. The layout consists of a hall and crosswing plan, with a cross-passage between them. The building is two storeys high. The hall range includes two blocked windows with three and four lights, showcasing original diamond mullions, while the current windows are all from the 20th century. There is a doorway leading to the cross-passage and two 20th-century windows on the gable end of the crosswing. Inside, there are abutting inglenook hearths made of clunch rubble and narrow brick, with the main beam supported by the frame in front of the stack. The tie beams feature cranked bracing and jowled heads on the principal posts. The hall is divided into three bays and has open trusses on the first floor, with cranked wind bracing in the centre bay of the hall roof.