5, High Street

No. 5 High Street is a house and shop that dates from the 16th century or early 17th century, with a closet wing added in the 19th century and a shop front inserted in 1902. The front of the building, above the shop front, is made of 20th-century brick with slate hanging on the roof gable. The side walls are likely made of stone, while the rear wall consists of coursed stone rubble. The roof is slated with red ridge tiles, and no chimneys are visible from the street.

The building has a plan that is one room wide and three rooms deep, with front and back rooms featuring chimneys in the right-hand side wall. The closet wing is located at the rear, to the right. It stands three storeys high, with the top storey primarily in the roof space. The front is one window wide on the third storey, while the lower storeys contain a two-tier wooden shop front.

The ground storey features a display window to the right, supported by slender iron columns at each end, which hold up a decorated frieze with a base of green glazed tiles. There is a recessed glazed shop door with a shaped head and fanlight. The shop window and door are flanked by pilasters with mirrors set into the shafts, and above them are large, bracketed panelled blocks that flank a plain frieze and cornice. To the left is the house door, which has two flush panels at the top, and a fluted pilaster with a bracket above it.

On the second storey, there are three display windows separated by slender iron columns, topped with a very tall frieze and a moulded cornice, finished at each end with shaped brackets and pedimented blocks. The third-storey window is segmental-headed with a two-light casement.

The interior has been much altered, but early fireplaces, beams, and partitions are likely to remain under the plaster. The original six-bay roof features five heavy trusses with two tiers of threaded purlins and a notched apex, with a ridge piece slotted into the top. Although the collars have been removed, halvings on the principal rafters indicate that they were originally cambered with plain ends. The principal rafters have plain feet, and the rear bay is deeper, suggesting it may have been extended. The closet wing has a well-preserved 19th-century roof.