219 AND 221, HIGH STREET

This is a timber-framed house, now divided into two separate dwellings, dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is constructed with a timber frame, plastered and weatherboarded, and has a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The main range, likely built around 1570, originally comprised three bays, with a fourth bay formerly extending to the right. A three-bay crosswing, built in the early to mid-16th century, projects to the front and rear and is jettied over the street. The house has 18th and 19th century lean-to additions of one storey with attics to the right of the crosswing, extending both to the front and rear, and a more recent flat-roofed single-storey extension to the rear of the main range.

Number 219 incorporates the crosswing, the lean-to extensions, and part of the main range, while number 221 includes the remainder of the main range and the flat-roofed extension. The front of number 219 features a splayed bay of modern casements beneath the jetty, and three further casements on the first floor. Number 221 has a modern door in the main range. The right return of the building is weatherboarded and featureless, while the left return has a four-window range of modern casements and a modern gabled porch with scalloped bargeboards, containing a 20th-century door.

Number 221 is largely modernised internally, with the sole remaining historical feature being an arched brace in the front left corner. The roof is a clasped purlin structure with arched wind-bracing, and the right gable is blocked with flettons behind the weatherboarding. Inside number 219, much of the original timber framing is visible, revealing a gap between the main range and crosswing. The crosswing features a blocked doorway with a four-centred head and a rebate for shutters, which likely held an unglazed window. Internal features include chamfered binding beams with step stops, chamfered joists with modified step stops, plain joists with a blocked stair trap, and jowled posts. A cambered tiebeam connects the front and middle bays, along with one of two arched braces. Sections of original wattle and daub infill remain in the upper left wall, and a groove for a sliding shutter is visible in the rear tiebeam. Curved tension bracing is present on the outside of the right wall. The roof structure incorporates a crownpost and axial bracing. A Victorian cast iron grate is located in the middle first-floor hearth. Interior doors date from the 18th or early 19th century. A window of early type, with two hollow-moulded mullions and two original saddle bars, is exposed internally within number 219, and is considered a feature worthy of careful preservation.