6 And 8, High Street

Nos. 6 and 8 High Street are houses and a shop, dating from the 15th or 16th century, with a facade added in the mid-19th century. The buildings are timber framed, with the ground floor featuring a chequered pattern of red and grey brick in Flemish bond, while the first floor is made of slightly later red brick also in Flemish bond. The roof is covered with plain tiles and includes a cross-wing to the right, possibly containing remnants of a hall to the left. The structure stands slightly forward compared to other buildings on the street.

It has two storeys, attics, and a cellar on a plinth, with a moulded wood eaves cornice. The roof is hipped to the right, incorporating the cross-wing, and half-hipped to the left. There are two brick stacks: one at the rear to the left and another in the rear slope of the roof, off-centre to the right. The building features two hipped dormers and a regular arrangement of three glazing bar sash windows. The ground floor windows have rubbed brick voussoirs within the red brick of the first floor.

The central 19th-century shop front has doors on either side; the door to No. 8 is on the left and features six fielded panels with a blocked rectangular fan-light, while the door to No. 6 is half-glazed. Both doors are flanked by plain pilasters and topped with a flat hood that extends over the shop window. There is a cellar hatch with a segmental head beneath the right-hand ground floor window. The front door of No. 8 leads into a 19th-century flagged passage with weatherboarded sides, created within the original building, providing direct access to the yard. A door from this passage leads into the interior of No. 8. Inside, the cross-wing consists of four bays, with the fourth bay at the rear now belonging to High Street No. 4, and features exposed timbers.