12 and 14 High Street

This building comprises two commercial units with residential accommodation above, originally built in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It was re-fronted in the early 18th century, internally altered in the early 19th century, and later restored around 1980.

The building is constructed from rubble stone with a stucco finish, with some close studding to the rear. The rear wings are timber-framed with rubble stone and brick extensions. It has party wall and gable-end chimney stacks and roofs covered in plain tiles and slate. The plan is U-shaped, with a front range facing High Street and rear wings set at right angles, later extended.

The building has two storeys and an attic with two rooflights. The front elevation is symmetrical, featuring a parapet, a plain central doorway with a 20th-century six-panel door, and two shop fronts. The shop front to the right of the doorway dates to the early 19th century, featuring incised pilasters, a fascia, cornice, panelled stall riser, a three-light shop window, and a half-glazed door. A late 20th-century shop front is located to the left, with a plate-glass window. The first floor has five six-over-six-pane sash windows in exposed frames. The rear elevation has a central gable with close studding and a first-floor casement window with moulded mullions, having a shallow overhang. The flanking rear wings have stone ground floors, with the north wing featuring a timber-framed first floor and later extensions. A rear extension to 12 High Street forms a separate dwelling, known as Little House, while the extension to the rear of 14 High Street was originally single-storey and raised during the 20th century.

The first-floor plaster ceiling of 14 High Street, dating to 1570, features square and circular motifs with foliage and roundels bearing the merchant's mark of Thomas Bingley. A similar ceiling is found in the through passage to 14. The second floor reveals the exposed purlins and principal rafters of the roof structure. A curved-rail, open-well staircase from the early 19th century with stick balusters is also present. The ground-floor shop of 14 High Street has an early 19th-century painted ceiling decorated with flowers and corner modules. Within 12 High Street, a first-floor fireplace has a four-centre-arched lintel, and the roof displays 16th and 17th-century trusses with cambered collars and tie beams.