13, High Street

This is a house dating from the mid-to-late 17th century, with additions and alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house is timber-framed and has been roughcast and plaster rendered. The left-hand gable end wall has been rebuilt in white brick, and the rear wall is cased in similar brick. The roofs are tiled, with one raised at the right-hand side. A substantial ridge stack is constructed of gault and red brick, featuring three rectangular shafts on a rectangular base, with a moulded string-course now hidden within the raised roof of the right-hand bay.

The house has a plan of three bays and a lobby entry. It is two storeys high, with a garret inserted when the roof was raised. A two-storey porch, likely dating from the 17th to 18th centuries, stands opposite the stack. The porch has a hung sash window with small panes above a round-headed doorway from the early 19th century, featuring a 20th-century panelled door and a blind fanlight with glazing bars. The remaining windows are also hung sashes with glazing bars, including two windows, one to each storey, for an addition to the centre bay at the front.

Inside, there's an early 19th-century open-stringed staircase with turned newels and square section balusters. Some timber framing is visible, displaying straight downward bracing and joint techniques comparable to those found at No.13 Toft Lane, dated 1685. One first-floor room has stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A passageway has been created between the walls of the abutting inglenooks. It is believed the house may have been used as a non-conformist meeting house.

Within the garden is a burial ground containing two early 18th-century headstones, one dated 1705 to Thomas Webb, a table tomb, and 19th-century headstones marking the graves of members of the Paul family.