38, High Street

This is a house, mainly dating to the 16th century, with earlier origins in some of the front bays. It is a single long range set at a right angle to the street, and includes an adjacent carriage entrance. The house is timber-framed and now rendered, with a pantiled roof. It is two storeys high. The former gable end of the house juts out, and was originally re-roofed perpendicular to the street, but is now parallel. A three-light casement window on the first floor retains some old diamond-leaded glass. Below it is a sash window with glazing bars, and a boarded entrance door. To the right is a carriage entrance, with a jettied loft above supported by original solid brackets and buttress-shafted wall posts. The loft has a two-light casement window. The rear of the range was formerly a coach house, with a north wall rebuilt in the 19th century using red brick. This rear section includes two round-headed windows with Y tracery.

Inside, the front two bays have substantial plain joists. The end bay has a knee-braced floorbeam. A partition between the front bays shows remains of square-headed doorways set into the side walls. The timber studding is widely spaced, with some parts missing or rebuilt, especially on the ground floor. Two incomplete upper windows had square mullions. There is an arch-braced cambered open tie beam at the front. The rear two bays incorporate some sooted medieval timbers. The carriage entrance is a later addition, likely filling in what was previously the parlour end of an adjacent house (see entry number 6/103). A stack was inserted against the south wall of the front bay, with fireplaces on each floor, the ground floor opening being rebuilt. The roof is said to have originally been of crown-post type, but has been extensively rebuilt.