96, High Street

No 96 High Street is a house that also incorporates a shop, dating from the 17th century or earlier. It includes half of an early 18th-century two-cell house at the west end, which is now part of the main structure. The building has a timber frame set on a plinth made of brick and flint, with roughcast walls, although the north wall is dark weatherboarded. It is one and a half storeys tall, with a three-cell layout and a central chimney plan, facing south with an east gable towards the street that features an early 20th-century shopfront projection. There is a small outshut at the southeast corner. The south front, which is irregular, leads to a yard and includes two flat-topped dormers on the eaves, a lean-to porch, and flush wooden casement windows. The former one and a half storeys central chimney plan two-cell house at the west end has been demolished to the west of the stack. The main house has a large T-plan central chimney with vitrified headers, and a third chimney is located at the west end. The roof is supported by side-purlins, and there is an inserted floor from around 1700, featuring stop-chamfered cross beams.