93/95 AND 97, HIGH STREET

This is a late 15th-century house, originally comprising three dwellings, now divided into two. It was refloored and a stack was inserted around 1600, and altered in the mid-18th century. The house is timber-framed, with rendered walls, sections cased in red brick, and some weatherboarding. It has a steeply pitched hipped thatched roof and is an example of a Wealden house.

The main hall range has a symmetrical 18th-century red brick facade below the original coved eaves. A central plank and muntin door has a flat brick arch with hood mouldings and brackets. Flanking openings have cambered brick arches; the right one is blind, and the left has a 16-pane sash window. Above, there are three blind horizontal panels with a sliding sash window on the inserted upper floor. A projecting brick course supports the plaster cove, with two brackets supporting the wall plate. The original jettied crosswings were underbuilt in 18th-century red brick. Both crosswings have external entrances with plank and muntin doors, simple brackets to hoods, and 20-pane glazing bar sash windows in shallow reveals. The rendered first floors have a sliding sash window to the left and a smaller sash to the right. An axial ridge stack was inserted in the through passage and rebuilt. The left return side has a weatherboarded dado, rendered above, and a 19th-century external stack with offsets. The right return side is red brick, dating to the 18th century and later. The rear of the house is rendered with a mix of casement windows, some early two and three-light. A small, slate-roofed outshuts has been added to the rear.

Inside, the exposed timber framing is of large scantling, with curved passing tension braces. The hall retains shutter grooves and peg holes for a bench at the upper end. It features a crown post roof with downward braces, along with a stop-chamfered bearer, joists, and a fireplace lintel, all dating to around 1600. There is painted decoration in the hall and parlour, also dating to around 1600.