106, High Street

This is a house dating from the early 16th century, with significant rebuilding and extensions around 1600. A stair wing and chimney stack were added in the mid-17th century, and it was altered and re-cased in the mid-19th century, with further extensions in the 20th century. The house is timber-framed, now largely clad in white brick, with tiled roofs. It is arranged as a two-bay hall range with projecting cross wings, forming an ‘H’ shape.

The original service wing is on the right and incorporates a cross passage with an entrance to the left, which was formerly jettied on three sides. The ground floor features a panelled door and a 16-pane sash window, recessed with a cambered head. A horizontal sliding sash window is on the first floor, under the eaves of a hipped roof. The hall range was rebuilt around 1600, with a slightly higher ridge. The ground floor has a 16-pane recessed sash to the left, replacing a former lobby entry, and a canted bay window with a tiled head to the right. Above this is a horizontal sliding sash. The eaves display a visible wall plate. A large mid-17th century axial chimney stack with rebuilt diagonal shafts is on the ridge to the left.

The upper cross wing to the left is taller and gable-fronted. It originally had a shop on the ground floor, now with a horizontally divided door and a large three-light casement shop window, all under a bracketed flat hood. The first floor has a horizontal sliding sash and bargeboards. A black brick plinth runs throughout. The left return has three bays, with an entrance to the front and horizontal sliding sash windows.

Inside the early cross wing is a reverse curved brace and dragon beam. There are some 18th-century red brick elements to the rear gable end, with a whitewashed right return. A low, short 17th-century gabled stair wing is located to the rear of the hall range. A two-storey, single-bay 20th-century addition, with a hipped roof level with the earlier cross wing, is set back on the right.