14, 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET

Nos 14, 16, and 18 High Street is a block of three shops dating from the 16th to 17th century, which was refaced in the early 19th century. The building is timber framed, refaced in brick, and partly colourwashed, with a pantiled roof. It stands two storeys high and features a 2:2:1 bay arrangement that steps up the hill. The shops have various 19th-century windows and doors, including a square bay window on the left side of No 16 and a recessed corner entrance to No 14. At the rear, the building extends by two bays and is continued by a long range of attached buildings, which are not of special interest. There is a rear wing across Nos 14 and 16.

Inside the left bay of No 16, there is a bar stopped chamfered spine beam, with a cross beam in the second bay that has shaped scoop stops. No 14 appears to be a separate build, likely a 17th-century addition, featuring ogee stops to the spine beam and an inner wall with square bracing and wavy corner braces. The roof of the eastern bay has straight windbraces to the intermediate truss. The central bay, originally a single storey with an attic, retains a surviving truss at a lower level with wattle and daub infill.