60, High Street

This is a house, now a shop, dating back to approximately 1400, with significant additions from the late 16th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a peg-tiled roof. The building has a rectangular footprint and rear extensions.

The north front elevation features a broad gable facing the street. The ground floor has been altered in the 20th century with a shop front containing a fully glazed window and door. A passageway through to South Street opens on the west side. The first floor has two 19th-century sash windows with horns. An attic window is set within the gable, similar to the first-floor windows but with 2x2 panes of glass. The south, or rear, elevation shows the gable merging with a timber-framed and plastered addition to the adjacent property at number 62. A smaller block is butted to the gable end and is partly jettied; the ground floor is weatherboarded with a 19th-century fixed window containing 4x4 panes of glass. The first floor also has a 19th-century sash window with 4x2 panes. A small, single-storey timber-framed block, plastered and weatherboarded with a peg-tiled roof, is located at the south end of the range. A two-storey brick block with a slate roof sits to the west. On the ground floor a segment-headed doorway leads to the interior with a plain 20th-century door. Bay windows, dating from the 19th century, are located at the south end, with three canted sections; each ground and first-floor window has a casement window in each cant containing 2x2 panes of glass, and an upper, top-hung casement with a central glazing bar and 2 panes. Pebble dash rendering is present between the windows, topped by a simple cornice.

The interior of the building features a heavy doorway with a deep, two-centred arched head on the west side of the South Street passage. Surrounding timber framing has been largely replaced by brickwork. It was likely originally jettied to the street, but little evidence of this remains. The first floor is largely obscured but includes three principal bays, one displaying a cambered tie-beam, arched brace, wall plate, chamfered brace, and a crown post roof with a collar purlin. A door or window head with an adjacent tension brace is also visible. A later block added to the rear is jettied on the west side, constructed with inferior studding, and likely dates from the late 16th century. A rail beneath the windows suggests a possible original gallery. A cornice of classical profile remains within the present room on the High Street frontage, indicating that the frontage is now slightly built out from the original line. The building was originally a cross-wing to a hall house, continuing into number 62 and possibly onto the site of number 64. A visible doorway in South Street led from a hall toward the west into the cross-wing. Numbers 60, 62, and 64 form a group.