66, High Street

66 High Street is a Grade II* listed house dating from the 16th century. It features a timber frame on a low chamfered plastered sill, with roughcast but exposed framing on the front and white roughcast panels. The house has a steep red tiled roof and a 20th-century plastered and pantiled one-storey lean-to addition.

This two-storey, three-bay, two-cell house has a central chimney and a lobby-entry design, facing west with a continuous front jetty. The front has three windows with an exposed close-studded frame on both floors, a tension brace at the northern end, heavy bull-nose joists, and four heavy knee-braces on the bay-posts below the jetty. The central bay features a three-light original window with ovolo-moulded lattice leaded glass, while the end bays have larger 17th-century three-light mullioned windows with rectangular quarries and iron casements on the first floor.

There is a wide battened door, which has been renewed, set in a moulded four-centred arched doorway with carved spandrels. To the right of the door is a large three-light mullioned and leaded casement window, and to the left is a shallow canted oriel window of similar construction but resting on an older moulded bracket sill.

Inside, the house has a staircase located at the rear of the stack, axial ceiling beams, and a T-plan late 17th-century red brick central chimney, likely replacing an earlier timber one. This house remains a little altered and retains its exposed framing, reflecting its late-medieval origins.