21, High Street

No. 21 High Street is a cottage dating from the early 16th century, with additions from the 17th and 18th centuries. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with gault brick casing and weatherboarding. The roof is thatched with long straw and hipped to the east. Originally a single-storey building with a three-unit plan, it has had attic floors added. There is an early 17th-century ridge stack, an 18th-century dairy extension to the east, and a lower wing to the north that used to be a shop, which includes an original shuttered window. The main entrance is on the north side, while the original south-facing door of the cross passage has been blocked. The south elevation has a local red brick stack with reduced, grouped shafts. The cottage has two dormer windows and four ground floor windows fitted with modern casements. Inside, the building retains exposed timber wall and floor frames, with stop-chamfered ceiling beams. There is an open hall window to the south with diamond mullions, the original roof structure, and two large inglenook hearths.