3 And 4, High Street

Two dwellings, formerly three or more cottages, likely originating as a single farmhouse. The building dates to the 17th century, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The walls are roughcast cob with stone, and the left-hand end wall is constructed of random rubble. It has a hipped and half-hipped roof covered in asbestos slate, with red ridge tiles. The original layout is uncertain, consisting of a single-depth range (running parallel to High Street) with a rear wing, forming an L-shaped plan. It may have been a four-room baffle entry plan house with a service room to the right of the entry, and features three axial stacks, each heating two rooms, with a brick shaft. A late 20th-century external lateral stack has been added to the rear. The building is two storeys high, set on a slope, and each doorway is reached by external steps. The front elevation has five windows: four 3-light casement windows, and one early 19th-century casement window of 2 lights. On the ground floor, there are three doorways set high. Two of the windows are 17th or early 18th century, with wooden surrounds and deeply chamfered mullions, both with three fixed lights and one single-light window with a chamfered surround. The remaining windows are 20th-century replacements, including a 4-light, a 3-light, and a 2-light. The right-hand end features an early 20th-century two-storey canted bay. The rear elevation, with 20th-century additions (including a first-floor bathroom on brick piers), retains two 18th or early 19th-century casement windows with pegged surrounds; one of these is a 3-light window with eight leaded panes in each light and some crown glass. The interior was not inspected. Numbers 3 and 4 face numbers 1 and 2 across High Street, creating an attractive group.