78, High Street

No. 78 High Street is a house that has been converted into commercial premises. It dates from the 14th, 16th, and 19th centuries. The building is timber framed, plastered, and partly clad with painted brick, featuring a roof made of machine-made red plain tiles and slate. The original structure includes a 14th-century two-bay hall with an inserted floor and originally storeyed bays at each end, along with a crosswing dating from around 1500 on the left side. There is a fragment of a 16th-century stack, and the rear has extensions from the 17th century and later. The building has two storeys and an attic.

On the ground floor, there are two late 19th-century sash windows with four lights each. The first floor features one similar sash window and another in a gabled dormer. The crosswing jetties out over the street, with a square bay of similar sash windows beneath the jetty. The building displays 19th-century ornamental tile-hanging and dentilled bands on both gables, along with moulded and dentilled bargeboards on the right gable and moulded bargeboards on the left gable. Much of the original timber frame is visible inside, with smoke-blackened rafters above the hall and a crownpost roof in the crosswing.