83 And 85, High Street

This is an early 15th-century house, altered in the mid-16th century and the 20th century. It is now divided into a house and a shop. The building is timber framed, with plaster infill and a red plain tile roof. Originally a hall house, it features a mid-16th century axial stack in the right bay and two crosswings, which were originally jettied to the street but are now underbuilt. The left crosswing is now oversailed by the roof of numbers 79 and 81. A floor was inserted in the hall and the roof was raised around 1540. The front is arranged with a three-window range of 20th-century casement windows, and a small 20th-century shopfront in the right wing. There is a half-glazed door. The stack was rebuilt at the top in the late 19th century. Inside, there are stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. Some smoke-blackened rafters were re-used in the raised roof. Historically, the property was under joint ownership with numbers 79 and 81, and the buildings have undergone various roofing, subdivision, and re-combination works, often disregarding the original structure’s divisions.