20, High Street

No. 20 High Street is a house dating from the early 17th century. It features a three-cell lobby-entrance plan and is one storey high with attics. The building is timber-framed and roughcast, topped with a double-Roman pantiled roof that has a central 17th-century chimney made of red brick, which has been recapped with gault brick. The house has gabled 19th-century casement dormers and small-pane 19th-century casements. The entrance door is a 20th-century six-panelled design. There is a late 19th-century or early 20th-century shop front in a later extension to the right. Inside, the central chimney serves back-to-back open fireplaces; the one in the hall features reused Barnack limestone blocks with large roll mouldings, likely repurposed from a 12th-century monastic building such as St. Edmund's Abbey. The exterior displays much exposed timber-framing, including studwork with long rising sole-braces.