24, 24A AND 26, HIGH STREET

This is a group of three houses, originally a single house, located on Barkway High Street. The core of the building dates to the early 17th century, with extensions added in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and further alterations in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The construction is timber-framed, with rendered external walls. The roofs are steeply pitched and thatched, with some tiled sections. Weatherboarding is used extensively, along with brick cladding in certain areas.

The building was originally two cells and has been extended at both ends and to the rear. Number 24 represents the original section, a one-and-a-half-story structure with a rendered plinth and weatherboarded dado. A step leads to a central entrance with a disused plank door, flanked by horizontal sliding sash windows within flush moulded frames. A single two-light attic window with leaded lights is also present. A ridge stack is located at the original left end. To the right is a short kitchen addition with a hipped roof and a 19th-century external brick stack with offsets, with brick on the ground floor and a horizontal sliding sash window on the first floor.

Number 26 is attached to the left of Number 24 and consists of one weatherboarded bay, with a two-story profile, a ground floor brick projection containing an entrance, a two-light small-pane casement window, and a slate roof. The roof has a taller ridge and a slightly shallower pitch, with a left-end stack. The left return shows ground floor brick with a tripartite horizontal sliding sash window on the first floor, which is weatherboarded and has a small sash window.

A rear entrance to Number 24 is located within a lean-to addition. Number 24A, attached to the rear of Number 24, was built in the 18th century and altered in the 20th century. It is three bays wide, two stories high, with two- and three-light small-pane casement windows. The front elevation is brick on the ground floor and roughcast on the first floor. A hipped roof fronts the structure, and the rear gable end is weatherboarded with a red brick external stack.

A further 20th-century bay is attached to the rear. The interior has not been inspected. The building was formerly the Half Moon Public House.