Sherborne House

Sherborne House is a Grade II* listed building located on the west side of High Street in Charing. This house and shop, originally built in the mid-16th century, features a purpose-built shop with accommodation that was refenestrated in the early 19th century. The structure is timber-framed with a continuous jetty over the High Street, and it has close-studding with plaster infill on a plinth. The end walls and the ground floor of the rear elevation are constructed of red brick. The roof is tiled, gabled to the right and hipped to the left, with an off-central brick chimneystack.

The building is two storeys high and has five windows. The first-floor windows are mainly 19th-century triple casements with leaded lights, although four original blocked window openings can still be seen. On the ground floor, there are two early 19th-century five-light canted bays, and to the left, there is a late 18th or early 19th-century three-light canted bay shop window featuring an original sliding sash. This shop window projects on wooden piers and is topped with a wide tile-hung canopy. To the south of the shop window are two wide unglazed windows with four-centred heads and sunken spandrels, which retain rebates and hooks for hanging heavy shutters, representing the original 16th-century shopfronts. The tops of these windows have wooden trellised grilles.

To the south, there is a half-glazed door with two panels at the base, and to the north, a six-panelled door. The north end of the building has been truncated and covered in Jacobean brickwork, featuring a blocked four-light mullioned window on the first floor. The south end displays late 18th-century brickwork. The rear elevation reveals exposed framing on the first floor, including a curved brace. There is also an 18th-century one-storey brick addition with a roof that has two hips. Inside, the building features a moulded spine beam in the south ground floor room, along with fireplaces and exposed framing that includes a crown post roof.