26 High Street And 16 East Street

26 High Street and 16 East Street is a house that has been converted into a shop with offices above. It dates from the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th century, and a refacing of the front in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed and jettied, with colourwashed stucco on the first floor and attic. The roof is modern and machine-tiled, featuring a box dormer on the right side.

The exterior is two storeys with attics, and has a gable end facing the street. It is a four-bay structure, with an open hall in the two centre bays on the first floor. The first floor has a three-light wooden mullion and transom window with casements, while the attic has a two-light modern mullion and transom window with casements. The ground floor features a modern shopfront, partly aluminium framed, with a boxed out fascia, a moulded blind box, and a cornice above, which may be a remnant of a 19th-century shopfront. The rear elevation faces East Street and also has two storeys and attics, with two 20th-century sash windows in moulded surrounds on the first floor. A modern lean-to conceals the jetty, but an early 16th-century moulded bracket above a moulded cap to a post and a moulded bressumer cover are exposed within the lean-to at the foot of the modern stair.

Inside, the original first floor open hall in the two centre bays features studded partitions with wattle and daub infill that subdivides the end bays. Heavy jowled posts and a tie-beam, which now lacks braces, support the open roof, which has been closed within the 18th-century attics and further altered by 20th-century rooflights and light wells. The close heavy studding is exposed in the front of the first floor. The roof structure over the hall and rear bay is also exposed in the attic, featuring principal rafters with cambered collars, side purlins, and curved windbracing, some of which are now cut and missing. The rafters were originally halved and pegged, but many have been cut and replaced. The front bay facing High Street has a later 18th-century roof with side purlins and rafters with a ridge board.