36, High Street

This is a mid-15th century merchant's house, likely originally incorporating a shop, and remodelled in the late 19th century. The building is timber-framed with brick and flint, and has a colourwashed exterior, with a slate roof. It is two storeys high. The ground floor features a late 19th-century double-fronted shop display window with a central glazed door. Flanking the door are three-pane horned sash windows. Chamfered brick pilasters with modified Corinthian capitals are positioned on either side of the shop front. The first floor is deeply jettied over a coving, with a single six-pane sash window. A gabled roof is present, with an internal gable-end stack to the north. A four-panelled door, located immediately to the right of the shop windows, provided access to a passageway.

The rear of the property includes a two-storey gabled cross wing with an internal gable-end stack to the east. The south side has windows with glazing bars, likely of 19th-century date. An additional two-storey gabled wing was rebuilt between 1949 and 1950 following bomb damage, located to the east of the original cross wing.

The interior of the front shop displays 19th and 20th-century features. The rear, domestic room contains a very heavy bridging beam, dating from c.1440. The lower surface of the beam is decorated with relief-carved bifurcating scrolls with floral designs. The spine beam has wave-moulded edges, and the joists are roll and keel-moulded. The room was originally entered from the front shop via two doorways, one of which remains, and dates from the 19th century. An early 17th-century staircase was inserted into the north wall, accessed through a doorway with small-framed panels and strap hinges; this staircase now leads to the cellar, and the upper portion was removed in the 19th century. The cellar has chamfered bridging beams and a brick and flint plinth course. The roof structure consists of tie beams on arched braces dropping to wall posts, all of which have been renewed, with boarding above the tie beams.