35-39, HIGH STREET

A hall house dating from the 16th century, it has been altered and refaced in the 18th and 19th centuries and is now used as two houses and a shop. The building is timber-framed and has a red brick ground floor, painted on the ground floor of number 39. The upper floor is tile-hung to the left and weatherboarded to the right of number 39. The roof is tiled, with a hip to the left, and includes a brick stack behind the ridge and a tall brick end stack to the left. There is a small gabled dormer window to the left. The house has two storeys and attics. The first floor has an irregular arrangement of five windows, including two sash windows without glazing bars to the left, a small central octagonal bay with sash windows without glazing bars, and two small glazing bar sash windows to the right. There is an octagonal bay on the ground floor to the left, which is under a jetty, and a 19th-century double shop front to the right with a pentice hood. A 20th-century shop front is located centrally. Boarded doors are located to either side of the central shop front (numbers 35 and 37) and to the right, in the central inset of the right-hand shop front (number 39).