23 High Street

23 High Street is a former Friends Meeting House built or rebuilt in 1701-1702, replacing a building erected in 1689-1690. The site has been owned by the Friends since the mid-17th century and is set back from the High Street behind a 1920s ashlar screen wall, located on the west side of a former forecourt.

The east front features one and a half storeys of red brick with untreated stone quoins, a wide coved plaster eaves cornice, and a half hipped tiled roof with a plain gabled dormer. It has two tall, high-set windows with flat arched heads and a central doorway with windows above. The south wall is rendered and includes a projecting staircase wing, with one bay extension to the original two bays at the rear, where the brickwork is exposed.

Inside, there is a single room with an attic floor above the staircase half landing, which provides a primitive formerly shuttered gallery. The top flight of stairs features substantial early 16th-century turned balusters.