High Thatch

High Thatch is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a thatched roof. The house has four bays facing southeast and features an axial stack. At the rear left end, there is a 20th-century lean-to extension with a roof made of machine-made red clay tiles. Additionally, there are two small 20th-century lean-to extensions with thatched roofs at the rear right corner. The building has two storeys; on the ground floor, there are three casements and one fixed light, while the first floor has two casements, all from the 20th century. A 20th-century thatched lean-to porch with a door is located on the left side. The southwest gable end, which faces Gosfield Road, has one 20th-century casement on each floor and 20th-century French windows. The exterior is plastered and features a traditional sawtooth chevron design in panels.

Inside, there are jowled posts and curved tension braces set within heavy studding, with face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates. The axial and transverse beams are chamfered and have lamb's tongue stops, with exposed plain joists of a horizontal section. There is a large wood-burning hearth facing to the right, with a mantel beam that is chamfered and has lamb's tongue stops, reduced for a 20th-century grate. A smaller wood-burning hearth facing to the left has also been reduced for a 20th-century grate. The upper storey shows diamond mortices for an unglazed window. The roof features clasped purlins and reuses sooted rafters from the crownpost roof of an earlier house. There is some evidence of a former timber-framed chimney in the same position as the current stack, which was replaced around 1600.