80, High Street

This building, located at 80 High Street, is a house that likely dates from 1600 or earlier, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as some minor changes in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with local rubblestone and brick walls, topped with a tile-pitched roof and brick chimneystacks.

The house is two stories high and has three bays. It has been used as two cottages at some point and may have originally been built as an open hall house, which has since been floored. The front elevation displays stone and brick walls that are rendered, with three 3-over-3 sash windows on each floor, one for each room. To the far right, there is a one-storey 19th-century brick addition with a curved rear wall, and to the far left, there are one-storey brick and rubble stone additions. The rear elevation shows some exposed timber framing, while the rest is rendered.

Inside, there is a heavy plank door leading into a panelled vestibule, with tiled floors throughout the ground floor. To the left, the larger room features a chamfered spine beam with joists, and 18th-century joinery that includes a corner cupboard with carved shelves, plank doors to cupboards and a stair cupboard located behind the vestibule, as well as a large open fireplace with a wood mantel. To the right, there is a spine beam in the central room, with plank doors leading to a rear larder and stair, and a fireplace with a wood mantel situated between the central and right bays. The far right room has a 4-panel door, a spine beam, built-in cupboards, and a 20th-century fireplace.

The staircase above has an additional partition in the central bay, aligning with the roof structure, which consists of cambered tie beams with vertical struts to collars and studs below, some of which have curved braces to the wall posts. Each bay has two pairs of curved wind braces, and there are curved braces from the tie beams in the end walls. The left bay features a collar purlin and a vertical strut to the tie beams, which appears to function like a crown post but may be a later support, as purlins are also present in this bay.

Overall, this three-bay, timber-framed house with stone and brick walls showcases a good range of 18th-century and mid-19th-century fittings.