74, High Street

No. 74 High Street is a house that was formerly a house and butcher's shop. It dates from the late 15th century, with alterations made in the late 17th century and late 19th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with 19th-century painted gault brick. It has plain tiled roofs and features a late 17th-century red brick ridge stack located to the right of the center.

The house is two storeys high and originally functioned as a hall house with cross wings that were raised to two storeys in the late 17th century, during which a chimney stack was inserted into the hall. The cross wing to the west was extended to the south at the same time, linking the main range to a 16th-century industrial building. This extension included the insertion of two chimney stacks and the conversion of part of the building into a kitchen and service rooms. The east wing was extended to the south in the 19th century to accommodate a staircase, and a passage was cut through the main stack to create an entrance. Alterations were also made for a shop, which features a single-storey flat-roofed extension between the wings, a large three-light shop window flanked by glazed-panelled house and shop doors, and two sixteen-paned hung sash windows. On the first floor, there are four twelve-paned hung sash windows.

The late 19th-century brick facing is present on the left-hand side of the 17th-century cartway, which has double boarded doors and a segmental brick arch, with a twelve-paned hung sash window above. Fire rings are attached to the cornice on the rear elevation. Inside, the first-floor room features a late 17th-century cornice and chimney piece. The east cross wing has a crown post roof, with exposed timber framing and floor framing. The 16th-century industrial building originally consisted of two two-bayed barns flanking a two-floored central bay, with a side purlin wind-braced roof, and it was possibly used for coopering.