34 High Street

34 High Street is a house, now a shop, dating to the mid-15th century with later additions and alterations. It is two storeys high and comprises two parallel ranges with a gabled peg tile roof. The building is timber framed and rendered, with a front formed of two linked gables. Each gable has a single double-hung sash window with glazing bars, and there are two 20th-century shop windows. A central 18th-century open pedimented timber doorcase features console brackets and a central vase motif. The original six-panel door and iron step handrails remain. There are also some original leaded light casements and 19th-century timber casements. The north end wall is of red brick in an English garden wall bond. A 20th-century two-storey rear extension is weatherboarded and has a gabled slate roof. A red brick stack is visible in the roof of the later range.

The southern gabled section is a former 15th-century house or public building, comprising three bays. It has large chambers on both floors of the front two bays, with the rear bay possibly partially open to the full height. The roof structure features a heavy, elaborately moulded frame, a sharply raking main tie beam and crownpost roof with large arch braces to the purlin and in the side walls. The roof was originally hipped with a gablet at the rear. There are many features suggesting a “high status” build. The north block is a 17th-century extension which is floored throughout. A mid-19th-century cast iron yard pump is situated at the rear of the property.