82, 84 AND 86, HIGH STREET

This property, originally a house dating to the early 17th century, was later divided into three houses and subsequently converted into two shops. In the early 19th century, rear extensions were added and the building was subdivided. An early 20th-century shop front was also installed. The main structure is timber-framed and faced with rendered brick, with whitewashed front elevations and a black-glazed pantile roof. A brick stack is located at the rear of the cross wing. The building has an L-shaped layout.

The main range is a single storey with a dormer attic and two bays. The left side features a two-storey cross wing with an attic. The main range incorporates 20th-century plate glass shop display windows and a central door under a catslide roof. Two dormers contain 2/2 horned sash windows. The cross wing has a canted plate glass bay window to the ground floor, a 20th-century plate-glass display window to the right and a half-glazed 19th-century door further right. The first floor contains a tripartite sash window with 0/0, 2/2, and 0/0 horned glazing bars. A 4/4 horned sash window is set within an attic gable, beneath a plaque bearing the initials ‘T M’ and the date 1662. The gable incorporates shouldered brickwork and tie irons.

The rear of the building shows the cross wing gable projecting to the right. A single-storey gabled extension is situated to the left of that, with a further two-storey extension beyond. Original features of the cross wing are largely obscured by later additions. A central extension has a top-hung window to the left of a plain door, while the left extension has 3/3 sash windows on both floors.

The interior of the cross wing features chamfered bridging and spine beams with jewel stops. A partially blocked fireplace is visible in the east wall of a rear room, alongside a 19th-century winder staircase and a rendered brick first-floor fireplace. The main range has a suspended ceiling on the ground floor, but the ceiling of the former first floor remains visible above, revealing sunk-quadrant-moulded bridging beams with jewel stops. The roof of one portion is original, showing undiminished principals, collars, and clasped purlins. The remainder of the roof was replaced in the late 17th century and contains principals, two tiers of butt purlins, and collars.