32, High Street

This is a shop with living accommodation above, dating to the late medieval period with significant alterations in the 16th and 18th centuries. The building consists of three distinct sections arranged lengthwise along a narrow frontage onto the High Street. The central portion appears to be the remnant of a late medieval timber-framed hall house, altered in the 16th century. The front section is an early 18th-century timber-framed building, now clad in 20th-century tile hanging and covered by a hipped roof of old tiles. It has three storeys and two windows, featuring 19th-century sash windows without glazing bars, but with horns, and a parapet. A 20th-century shop front now occupies the ground floor. The interior of this section includes a first-floor front room with an early 18th-century cupboard featuring serpentine shelving, an early 18th-century two-panelled door with an HC hinge, and original 18th-century floorboards. The first to second-floor staircase retains an early 18th-century dog-leg design with turned balusters, and a second-floor room has a six-panelled door. The roof structure is of post-collar beam and through-purlin type. During a survey, some internal walls were visible, showing thin framing and lath and plaster construction.

The central part of the building displays evidence of a front section of two bays, which may have originally been an open hall house, extended to the rear with a raised ceiling and a large brick chimney stack inserted in the later 16th century. The ground floor shop interior exhibits chamfered floor joists with a 1-inch chamfer. On the first floor, a front corridor features a massive curved tie beam with a chamfer and run-out stops, supported on gunstock jowled posts with a wall plate sawn through where a passage was inserted. Above the tie beam is a later roll-moulded beam that forms part of a later 16th-century ceiling, with the remainder visible in an adjoining room. The corridor also contains another beam with a 2-inch chamfer and lambs tongue stops. A massive brick chimney stack includes a 18th-century cupboard in an alcove with serpentine shelves. A rear room showcases 16th-century framing with chamfers and lambs tongue stops. The second-floor roof is likely 18th-century, featuring rafters without a ridge piece, collar beams, and through-purlins. It contains a four-light sliding casement and a 19th-century plank door. A late 18th-century extension to the rear is constructed with red brick on a deep plinth, weatherboarded first floor, and a tiled roof, with sash windows.