52, High Street

No. 52 High Street is a house that was originally two dwellings, dating from the early 17th century, with extensions made in the mid to late 17th century. It was refronted in the mid 18th century and underwent alterations and extensions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame with a red brick casing and has tiled roofs.

The front of the house has three bays and is two storeys high. There are two broadly spaced three-light flush frame timber casements on each floor, with segmentally arched heads for the upper lights and cambered heads for the ground floor. The entrance is located in the right bay, and there are dentilled brick eaves. The roof is hipped to the right, and there is an axial cruciform stack situated between the two left bays. A second entrance is found in a lean-to addition on the left side. The left gable end displays exposed struts that support collar clasping purlins.

At the rear, there is a slightly lower two-storey wing with an early stack that has offsets; this stack was originally external but is now incorporated into a 20th-century catslide roofed lean-to addition on the left. Additionally, there is a double-gabled block from the later 17th century at the rear, with a brick ground floor and a weatherboarded first floor featuring three-light casements and an external stack to the right. Inside, there is an ovolo moulded binding beam.