12, High Street

House. Dating from the 16th century, the front of the house was significantly altered in the early 18th century, and the interior was modernised at that time. A parallel rear range and kitchen wing were added in the 19th century, connecting to a 16th and later barn range extending eastwards. The front of the house is timber-framed on stucco plinths, with a plastered parapeted facade facing west. The rear range, kitchen, and facade of the barn range are of painted brick, with the barn range dark weatherboarded on the north side and east end. The roofs are steeply pitched, covered in old red tiles, except for the lower-pitched slate roof of the parallel rear range.

The house is a long, symmetrical two-and-a-half-storey building with five windows, and a room extends over a carriageway on the right side. Originally with a two-cell central passage plan imposed on an older building, it likely previously had a continuous front jetty. A large central chimney backs onto the north passage, and a smaller south-gable chimney serves the south part. The original building comprised three bays from the 16th century, followed by two bays in the 18th century, with a barn later linked to the house by a 19th-century extension, now incorporated into the rear range.

The front of the house features an imposing 18th-century facade with a moulded cornice, wooden rusticated quoins, flush box sash windows with 6/6 panes, moulded surrounds with triple keystones and bracketed sills, aprons to the upper windows, and a central doorcase with a pilastered Gibbs surround, open pediment, cusped radial fanlight, and a 6-panel raised and fielded door. Heavy double gates to the carriageway are disguised as a rusticated screen with a similar 6-panel fielded doorway in a bolection surround. The interior includes 2-panel ovolo-moulded doors with H-hinges, plaster cornices, and a Gibbs-style archway in the entrance passage. Remaining wattle and daub is visible in the attics, but the roof trusses were renewed in the 19th century.