56, High Street

56 High Street is a house dating from the 16th century, with interior alterations made in the early 18th century and early 19th century. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, topped with steep old red tile roofs. It stands two storeys tall with cellars and has three windows facing west. The house has a continuous front jetty and rear wings at the northeast and southeast. Tall red brick chimneys are located at the south gable and a third chimney rises from the north end through the front roof slope.

The symmetrical front of the house has boxed eaves and three flush 19th-century casement windows on the upper floor, each with moulded surrounds. Below the middle window is a colour-washed lead panel with raised floral ornament as an apron. There is a deep plaster cove under the jetty, which is returned at the ends. The central door is battened and studded, flanked by fluted pilasters and topped with a small open pediment on foliate brackets and a winged head over a moulded surround. On either side of the door are flush triple-sash windows with moulded surrounds and small panes.

Inside, the house features a soot-blackened, three-bay crown-post roof with square posts and long curved braces to the collar-purlin. The rear wing has a clasped-purlin roof with inclined queen-posts and curved tension braces in the rear wall on the ground floor at the north end. The south room on the ground floor has 18th-century panelling, including a four-panel section of linenfold panelling over the fireplace. The south room on the first floor also has 18th-century panelling, with a moulded cornice and two-panel doors featuring ovolo moulding and H-hinges.