112-118, HIGH STREET

A house, dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, later altered in the early 19th century, now divided into four houses and an office. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It comprises three bays facing southeast, featuring an axial stack positioned one bay from the left end and an internal stack at the right end. An 18th or early 19th century extension adjoins the right side, along with a 20th century single-storey wing at the rear of that extension. A rear stair tower has a hipped roof. There are single-storey lean-to extensions on the left return and at the rear of the left return, the latter partially roofed with red clay ‘Roman’ tiles.

The building is two storeys and has attics. Number 112 (on the right) has a 20th century bow window, and a first-floor sash window with 6+6 lights, dating to the early 19th century. Number 114 has two 20th century sash windows on the ground floor, a first-floor sash window with 8+8 lights, also from the early 19th century, and a 20th century casement in a hipped dormer. Number 116 mirrors this arrangement. Number 118 features an early 19th century sash window with 6+6 lights and a 20th century casement on the ground floor, and a similar sash window on the first floor. All doors are 20th century replacements. The eaves have a moulded plaster coving.

The rear elevation has 20th century casement windows on the ground floor, and 19th century casement windows on the first floor.

Inside Number 116, an exposed axial beam and plain joists of horizontal section are visible, potentially reused from an earlier building on the site, along with a large corner hearth. Elsewhere, there are chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of vertical section on the ground and first floors. The framing includes face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates, and primary straight bracing. The interiors have been destructively sand-blasted.