30, High Street

No. 30 High Street is a house, believed to have been an inn, which is now a shop. It likely dates from the early to mid-17th century, although the front part was rebuilt in the early 19th century. The front is solidly rendered, while the side walls of the front part are mostly made of red brick. The roof is not visible from the street. The building has a one-room-wide plan, with many internal partitions removed, but it appears to have originally been four rooms deep, with the middle rooms lit through the right side wall. It stands three storeys tall and has a one-window range. The ground storey features a late 20th-century shop front. The upper-storey windows are triple-sashed and set in a single round-arched recess, which has a moulded architrave and an enriched bracket-like keystone. The windows have barred sashes, with 6 over 6 panes in the centre lights and 1 over 1 panes in the side-lights. The third-storey window is different, featuring a round-arched centre light that creates a Venetian window; all three lights have only one row of panes in the upper sashes, with the centre light also having a radial bar. The front is finished with a prominent open triangular pediment, supported at each end by paired brackets.

Inside, the ground storey of the front two rooms has been wholly altered, while the rooms above were disused at the time of the survey and largely stripped of plaster. There is an early 19th-century straight-flight wooden staircase in the rear right-hand corner, rising from the second to the third storey. In the rear left-hand corner, there is a reused piece of mid-17th-century panelling with small oblong panels that have bolection-moulded surrounds. The rear two rooms on the ground storey feature two ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with plain raised stops; the front beam has additional stops marking the position of a side passage to the right. The third storey has a 19th-century chimneypiece with an iron basket-grate. Both sections of the building have 19th-century roof timbers, but they are of different designs; the rear has king-post trusses. The facade is boldly articulated and is considered one of the best of its date in High Street.