52, High Street

No. 52 High Street is a house and shop dating from the 17th century and mid-18th century. It is constructed of colourwashed brick and has a tiled roof. The building is two storeys high and features four bays. The left two bays are occupied by shops, which include a 19th-century paned shop window and a simple boarded door to the left. The central entrance to the dwelling has a six-panelled door with fielded panels and a metal canopy supported by brackets. A moulded string course runs along the building. The ground floor has two 20-pane sash windows, while the upper floor features recessed two-light stone mullioned windows with reserved chamfer mouldings. A sun fire mark is also present on the building. Notably, the novelist Nigel Balchin lived here and attended Dauntsey's school from 1919 to 1927. The left gable has been rebuilt in blockwork, forming a buttress to the front. Inside, there is a deep chamfered spine beam, suggesting that the house was originally built in the early to mid-17th century and later altered in the 18th century.