35 35a 37a (Part), High Street

This is a house, now commercial premises with flats above, dating from the late 14th and early 15th centuries, with alterations in the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed and has been stuccoed, with an old tiled roof and a jettied stuccoed gable facing the street. It was probably originally double jettied, with further projecting attic sections.

The exterior is three storeys high. The first floor has stucco and faint masonry lining, indicating two stages of diagonal wind bracing beneath the outer finish. It features two windows: a three-light casement with cavetto moulded mullions in the centre, and a four-light square oriel bay to the right, with a coved base, 19th-century divided casements, and a moulded head on the underside of the overhanging second floor. The second floor is carried on brackets and a heavily moulded bressumer, also with modern stucco facing. A seven-light casement window, partly renewed but containing some ovolo moulded mullions, is also present. The ground floor has a modern shopfront with a brick stallriser, a projecting square-ended bay with bronze glazing bars, a fascia, a lightly moulded cornice, and a modern oak glazed door.

The interior reveals a large-scale two-bay structure, originally with an open hall at the second-floor level. The rear has been refaced with yellow-grey brick, dating from the 19th century, and a chimneystack was inserted in the 18th or 19th century. The ground floor has been gutted and overlaps with number 37. Modern subdivision has created flats on the first and second floors, with the first-floor front room overlapping number 37. The front room on the first floor contains a late 14th/early 15th century timber window, exposed internally, with a moulded cinquefoil cusped head to the left, and a three-light cavetto mullioned window to the right, beyond the projecting oriel. Central posts and beams suggest a braced tie-beam structure. The second floor has a 17th-century inserted ceiling, displaying exposed posts and one brace to the central tie-beam. In the loft is a two-bay crown post roof structure. The north gable has a central stud with a reset brace to the collar purlin; a mortice indicates a 17th-century alteration and later repairs included realignment of the gable. A central crown post with a moulded head and a moulded roll base features run-out stops. A halved and pegged rafter system is present, with some modern replacements reinforced by modern surface-nailed braces. An 18th-century red brick stack interrupts the collar purlin.