39 High Street

39 High Street is a building of possible early to mid-18th century origin, though it was later re-fronted and extended in several phases during the 19th century. The shopfront is a modern addition, dating to the late 20th or early 21st century. The building is constructed with a stuccoed front elevation and has a clay tile roof, with timber windows. It has a narrow frontage and a deep plan, featuring a single room on each of the first and attic floors, with extensions to the rear. Access to the first floor is via a stair in 40 High Street, and the attic floor is reached via a stair located to the rear of 39 High Street, which is shared with 40 High Street. Small, probably 19th-century additions, accessible jointly between 40 and 39 High Street, house first-floor WCs.

The exterior is two storeys with an attic, and the frontage is one bay wide, stuccoed, and features a shaped gable. The first-floor window is a tall, wide, horizontally-oriented tripartite opening with a central hopper light. The attic is lit by a two-over-two sash window set within the gable. At ground floor level is the late 20th or early 21st century shopfront, with a recessed entrance to the left. A stack is located on the centre of its west flank wall. The rear of the building includes a two-storey extension with a pentice roof, and a flat-roofed single-storey extension that fills the remaining plot.

Internally, openings in the party wall on the first and attic floors connect 39 with 40 High Street. The first floor is lined with modern finishes, whilst the attic floor has painted butt-and-bead vertical plank panelling. An attic fireplace has a simple late 19th-century stone chimneypiece and remnants of a cast iron fireplace, likely dating to around 1900. The roof structure, inspected in 2024, is exposed to the underside of the tiles and consists of paired rafters with collars, staggered purlins, and no ridge piece.