18, High Street

No. 18 High Street is an inn that has been converted into a shop and restaurant. It dates back to the 16th century or earlier and features a formerly jettied street range with a very long rear range extending along the north side of the yard. The front of the building is made of late 18th-century painted brick, topped with steep old red tile roofs, while the timber frame is roughcast.

The structure is two storeys high and has an L-shaped plan with a carriageway through the southern end of the front range leading into the yard. The west front has three windows made of applied brick, a central door, and boxed eaves with a panelled soffit. It features flush box sash windows with 4/4 panes and reeded mouldings. On the left side, there is a recessed bow-window with small panes next to glazed double doors, all under a gauged flat arch.

Inside the southern carriageway, the framework is exposed, showcasing close-studding, heavy flat joists, and a bracketed corner post that supports a front jetty. In the yard, a stair turret at the angle of the wings has a cross-window. The taller western part of the rear range was rebuilt in the early 17th century, with a blocked ovolo mullion window on the north wall and a face-halved bladed scarf in the wallplate.

To the east, there is a 16th-century hall that has had an inserted floor and features a central brick chimney, along with a blocked door and window in the north wall. The floor has been removed from the rest of the rear range, leaving windows at two levels below the clasped purlin roof. Some diamond-mullioned upper windows with shutter grooves remain intact on the north side, while those on the south side have been altered.

The upper part of the front range retains similar early window remains in the rear wall, straight tension bracing, and exposed close studding in the walls and partitions. The clasped-purlin roof structure includes a large inserted chimney located one third from the south end, with a later small internal gable chimney added at the north. The ground floor is lofty and features beamed ceilings with elaborate mouldings on the axial beam.