102, 103 AND 104, HIGH STREET

A substantial town house and retail premises, now divided into three shops and flats, dating to the mid-16th century and substantially altered since. The building is timber-framed, with rendered and colourwashed elevations. Number 102 has 20th-century tile-hanging to the first floor and a 19th-century machine tile roof at the front, while the rest of the building is covered with red pantiles. It is two storeys in height and features three 20th-century shop fronts. The first floor is jettied, with a coved underside. Floral consoles support the jetty at number 103. The first-floor window arrangement varies: number 102 has a late 19th-century three-light timber cross-casement, number 103 has a late 20th-century casement, and number 104 has two 20th-century horned sashes. The roof is gabled with a reduced ridge stack located at the north end and a central ridge stack. A large two-story, 19th-century brick extension to the rear serves numbers 103 and 104 and has a gabled roof with reduced internal gable-end stacks and 20th-century windows. Number 104 has a rendered outshut. The interior of the original 16th-century house occupied the central part of the building and extended two metres into the present number 102 to the north. Number 103 retains multiple roll-moulded bridging beams and joists on the ground floor. Number 104 continues the roll-moulded joists as far as a plain bridging beam with mortice holes indicating a former partition; to the north of this are chamfered and tongue-stopped joists. The ground floor of number 104 has roll-edged bridging beams with tongue stops.