40, High Street

This is a mid-16th century house in a row, with a later 19th-century cottage attached to its left. The main house features square-panelled timber framing with tension bracing, and herringbone brick nogging. It has a dressed stone plinth with short buttresses, and a stone slate roof with diagonally-set brick stacks. The house is two storeys and has an attic, with a four-window front. An eight-panelled door sits to the right of a multi-paned fixed window, sheltered by a 19th-century slated canopy. A ribbed door with a board hood is located to the left, alongside a pair of two-light leaded casements. The first floor has three two-light casements to the left, and a timber-framed gabled dormer to the right, incorporating a three-light first-floor casement and a small attic casement. The attached cottage is built of rubble stone, dating to the late 19th century, with a ribbed door, a three-light casement, and a gabled dormer with a hipped roof topped by a large ashlar stack.

The rear of the house includes a timber-framed rear wing with 20th-century casements, a glazed door, and a 20th-century hipped dormer. The main range has a 20th-century glazed door, a three-light wood mullioned casement, a three-light and a two-light casement, and a blocked four-light mullioned casement. A former stair turret in the angle with the wing has single-light casements. A short 19th-century rubble stone wing to the rear of the cottage features a blocked doorway and segmental-headed casements.

Inside, the ground floor contains a moulded Tudor-arched fireplace with a shield-filled spandrel, deep chamfered beams with stepped stops in the room to the right of the entrance. A timber-framed partition with a cyma-moulded doorway separates this room from the rear parlour wing. The parlour has an open fireplace with a flat chamfered lintel on stone jambs and deep chamfered beams. A room to the south, now the kitchen, has a large open fireplace with a plain lintel on brick jambs. The staircase is no longer in the stair turret; a 20th-century staircase was inserted to the right of the entrance. The first floor features timber-framed partitions, with some retaining wattle and daub panels. There are five good doors with nine moulded panels in cyma-moulded surrounds with stops. A north bedroom has wainscot panelling to the partition of the attic stairs, along with a Tudor-arched stone fireplace. The room above the parlour boasts a fireplace with a cambered wooden lintel. The original roof over the main range is six bays, with collar and tie-beam trusses; the south truss features a king strut, with two south bays divided from the rest by a closed truss. Curved wind bracing with chamfered soffits are present on the purlin and ridge. The wing has a three-bay roof.