76 High Street

The building at 76 High Street is a house, which has served as two houses and then returned to a single house. It likely dates from the 15th century, with significant alterations and additions in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. The walls are partly timber framed with brick front and rear walls, rendered on the front, and have a Welsh slate roof to the front slope and plain tiles to the rear. Originally planned with two rooms and a central entrance, it was divided into two cottages in the 18th century and later restored as a single house, with an 18th-century rear wing and a small 19th-century extension. The main façade is characteristic of the early 19th century and is three stories high. The ground floor is rusticated with a plain band above. It features two projecting shop windows with glazing bars: one canted and one a bow. There is also a fixed window with glazing bars in the location of former doors and a planked door. The first and second floors have ranges of sash windows with glazing bars within moulded stucco frames, with nine panes to the first floor and six panes to the second. A brick ridge stack is visible.

Inside, between numbers 75 and 76 is a medieval timber-framed closed truss, possibly of cruck construction, which may be a remnant of an earlier building or incorporated material from the original construction. It includes a slightly cambered tie-beam, convex brace, queen struts, a slightly cambered collar, and the top of an apparent cruck. The original 17th-century house had a kitchen to the left and a parlour to the right, with a cellar underneath. There are timber-framed partition walls, chamfered beams, a newel stair, and a fireplace with an eared surround on the first floor. The interior has been altered by the 18th-century conversion to two cottages and the later restoration. The Wiltshire Buildings Record identifies the building as number B7033.