53, High Street

This is a house, likely dating back to the 17th century or earlier, and significantly remodelled around the 1830s. It is constructed of rendered stone and cob, with a slate roof featuring gabled ends. The roof is served by axial and gable-end chimneys with rendered brick shafts.

The original plan may have been a three-room layout with a cross-passage, but it was altered around the 1830s. The main hall has an axial stack on the right, with a straight staircase behind it, creating an entrance lobby at the front. The rooms to the left and right of the hall are heated by fireplaces in gable-end stacks, and the kitchen on the left has a straight staircase partitioned off at the rear. A detached building originally behind the kitchen was connected to the main house, and a passage in a lean-to was added during the 19th-century remodelling; the wing is of two-room plan with a central stack containing an oven.

The north front has an asymmetrical arrangement of four windows. It includes 16-pane sashes in the centre and to the right, and a three-light casement on the left. Doorways are located on both sides of the front elevation, each with a pediment supported by shaped brackets, panelled and glazed doors. The right-hand doorway has a later 19th-century open porch with turned posts and a gabled canopy. The rear (south) elevation features two 16-pane sashes on the first floor, a 20th-century bay window and a French casement on the ground floor, and a wing on the right with a lean-to in the angle and a 19th-century Gothic window in the gable end.

The interior retains much of the 19th-century joinery, including panelled doors, window shutters, cupboards with neo-Classical architraves, Victorian fireplaces, and a staircase with stick balusters. The rear wing contains an axial stack with a clay oven. Some earlier timber has been re-used, including a head beam to a partition and a lintel. Both parts of the house have early 19th-century roof structures with lapped collar trusses.