279, High Street

No. 279 on High Street is a house dating from the late 16th century. It has a timber frame with roughcast rendering, and features later weatherboarding on the rear and one gable end wall. The ground floor of the crosswing is faced with gault brick. The steeply pitched roofs are currently covered in corrugated iron, though they were originally thatched. The house has a gault brick axial stack and a side stack on the crosswing, with early 18th-century brickwork in the lower courses and rebuilt upper courses.

The layout consists of a hall and crosswing plan, with the main entrance leading into a lobby that connects to the hall range. The building has two storeys, featuring two horizontal sliding sash windows on the first floor and two hung sash windows on either side of the doorway. Some of the timber framing is exposed and painted white. The crosswing also has two storeys and was originally jettied at the first floor, though this is now underbuilt. It includes one horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars.

Inside, the crosswing consists of three bays and has arch bracing on the tie beams. One upper room remains open to the roof and was used as a cheese room. The framing is made of substantial scantling and is closely set. The centre room of the hall range features a moulded main beam with leaf stops on the chamfer, and similar moulding is present on the middle rail above the hearth.