64, High Street

64 High Street is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the early 16th century and late 16th century. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with a peg-tiled roof. It has a rectangular plan and features a 19th-century brick addition at the rear, which is not of special interest and not included in this listing. The structure is two stories high, with a gabled front facing the street. The front has been completely refronted in recent years. The ground floor is inset, possibly indicating a former jetty, and includes a 20th-century shop window and doorway, both featuring slightly bowed glazing. The door consists of three panes above two lower panels, while the window has six panes above four. On the first floor, there is a large 20th-century two-light window with top-opening casements.

The rear elevation, facing South Street, is obscured by the 19th-century addition. The west elevation, also facing South Street, is timber-framed and weatherboarded, with a two-story structure. The first floor features a 19th-century window with three casements, divided by a house frame stud.

Inside, the framing reveals two periods of construction. The front section, dating from the early 16th century, consists of two bays and includes a first-floor chamfered jowled post of the central truss, with an up-sloping mortice for an arched brace to the tie-beam. The ground-floor rear wall retains a straight door head and wattle and daub that is still in place. The late 16th-century framing in the southwest angle is of lower quality and shows regular lines of large peg holes in the wall studs, likely for a weaver's warping frame, probably from the 17th century. This block may have been an added cross-wing to the earlier hall house to the east (numbers 60 and 62), or more likely, a shop unit created when a similar alteration was made to number 62, fashioned from the earlier hall block. Numbers 62 and 64 occupy the length of what is believed to be the original medieval hall. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments for Central and Southwest Essex interprets this block as a second cross-wing to the original hall. Numbers 60, 62, and 64 form a group.