2, High Street

No. 2 High Street is a house dating from around 1500, with a smoke hood added in the late 16th century and a stack and floor introduced in the early 17th century. The building was extended in the 18th century and restored in 1978. It features a timber frame on a brick base, with some parts exposed and the majority plastered. The roof is tiled.

This is a three-bay end hall house, with a storeyed bay that has a jettied gable end facing the road, and it has been extended by two one-bay additions at the rear, making it two storeys high overall. The narrow gable end facing the road showcases exposed framing with close studding and passing tension braces, supported by a jetty on three curved braces. It has jowled posts, a cambered tie beam, and struts to the collar with the end of the collar purlin exposed. The building features inserted leaded lights and bargeboards, along with 20th-century flush frame casements on the returns.

Inside, a late 16th-century timber-framed smoke hood remains, complete with original panel framing, mud and straw infill, and a blackened interior, with a later brick stack inserted within the smoke hood. The crown post roof has soot-blackened rafters, and 17th-century stop-chamfered bearers and joists have been added in the hall. The right return has a catslide roof over an early lean-to outshut behind the two hall bays. The first bay added to the rear has a lower ridge with a gambrel roof, featuring a 20th-century entrance porch on the left return. The further bay to the rear has a shallower pitch to the roof, with a ridge stack positioned between the two added bays and a second entrance at the rear.