6 And 8, High Street

6 and 8 High Street is a house, now divided into two houses and flats, dated 1710 on the rainwater head. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a gabled stone slate roof and stone stacks at the rear. The building has a double-depth plan and stands three storeys tall with a five-window range.

The central entrance features an 18th-century six-panelled door with an overlight, while to the left is a 20th-century panelled door set in a beaded segmental-arched architrave. To the left of the entrance is an early 19th-century bow window with pilasters and a moulded cornice, and to the right is a late 19th-century canted bay window with glazing-bar casements. On the first floor, there are early 18th-century six-pane sashes with thick glazing bars in Baroque-style keyed and segmental-arched architraves. The second floor has timber lintels over 19th-century casements with glazing bars. The building features raised storey bands and a late 19th-century gabled roof dormer with a horned six-pane sash.

Inside, there is a stair-turret flanked by two-storey outshuts at the rear, with an early 19th-century service range made of colourwashed brick and a 20th-century tile roof. The interior includes quartered stop-chamfered beams and an early 18th-century stone bolection-moulded fireplace to the right. A late 18th-century decorative fanlight leads to a doorway into the rear hall, which contains a fine early 18th-century quarter-turn staircase with winders and turned balusters on a closed string. Early 18th-century panelled doors are present on the rear and first floors. Winder stairs rise to the attic, which has a collar-truss roof with butt purlins.

This building was originally built for maltster Simon Hartley and his wife Mary and was sold by the Hartleys to the Duke of Marlborough in 1812.