4 And 6, High Street

Nos. 4 and 6 High Street are two houses that were originally one house, dating from the 14th or 15th century, with significant alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is timber-framed, partly covered with red brick in Flemish bond, and the remaining sections are plastered. It is topped with a modern plain tile roof.

The structure features a two-bay hall facing south, which contains an 18th or 19th-century internal stack in the left bay, positioned in front of the ridge. To the right is a two-bay parlour or solar crosswing, which has a 19th-century internal stack on the right side, along with an 18th-century extension at the rear that includes an internal end stack. The service end is to the left and is reported to be in the form of a crosswing, with an 18th-century extension at the rear featuring a hipped roof, and a 19th-century single-storey lean-to extension beyond. There is also a 19th-century single-storey lean-to extension situated between the rear wings.

The building stands two storeys high. No. 4, located on the right, has a ground floor with one late 19th-century tripartite window consisting of 2-4-2 lights and one late 19th-century sash window with 6 lights. On the first floor, there are two 19th-century sashes with 6 lights, which are similar in design but differ in having horns or not, along with a 20th-century boarded door featuring a simple canopy. No. 6, on the left, has two 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and two early 19th-century sashes with 4 + 8 lights on the first floor, along with a 20th-century half-glazed door and a simple canopy.

The continuous roof is of hipped gambrel form. The right crosswing has plain joists with a horizontal section that are jointed to the binding beam using unrefined central tenons, and it features a collar-rafter roof. The hall contains an inserted floor from around 1600, which includes a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops. This beam was formerly supported at the left end by a larger inserted stack than the current one, and it has plain joists of square section supported on clamps. In the partition between the hall and the right crosswing, there is a parlour doorway with an incomplete four-centred head and a mortice for a draught screen, as well as some original wattle and daub infill. The walls of the hall have been raised, and the roof has been rebuilt, reusing a tiebeam with double concave mouldings.