96-98, HIGH STREET

Nos. 96-98 on High Street is a house dating from around 1500, with the hall heightened in the mid-17th century. The building was refronted and had its gables altered in the 19th century. It features a timber frame on a stuccoed sill and is roughcast, with a weatherboarded first floor at the rear and an apron remaining at the northern end. The roof is very steep, covered with old red tiles, and has a thatched rear wing at the southeast.

This open-hall house is built alongside the road and consists of a two-bay hall flanked by narrow two-bay cross-wings. The southern wing was originally divided on the ground floor for a pantry and buttery and was later extended to the rear. The west front has three divisions with irregularly placed flush casement windows. A large central chimney, located a third of the way from the southern end, rises through the front slope of the roof, with a later chimney at the northern end for the parlour.

At the right-hand end of the front, there is a door with a flat hood supported by shaped brackets, and a similar door is located at the northern end. Inside, the southern wing retains a crown-post roof, and there are unusual early mouldings in the hall. The chamfered arched braces rise through the inserted floor, which has chamfered and stopped joists and beams, with each bay of the hall constructed differently. The jettied thatched wing features an external lateral chimney.