44, High Street

This is a late 17th or early 18th century house, later altered in the 19th century and renovated in the 20th. It has been divided into two properties and incorporates a flying freehold. The construction is colourwashed rendered cob and stone, with a rear timber stud wall to number 44 and a corrugated iron roof. The original layout was likely a single-depth, two-room plan with a through passage (now absent), a hall/kitchen to the left with a winder stair against the rear wall, and a heated parlour to the right. A rear service wing, originally possibly single-storey, extends at a right angle from the hall/kitchen. Parts of the hall/kitchen rear wall are timber. A single-storey lean-to was added in the 1980s, and it adjoins the rear left wing. The parlour, which is the right-hand room on the ground floor, is part of a separate property.

The front of the house is symmetrical, with a four-window arrangement and regular fenestration, featuring a central 20th-century front door. The upper floor has four four-pane sash windows; the ground floor has two six-pane sashes. Diamond-leaded panes have been added to the two right-hand windows, and the render finish is different on the right-hand property.

Inside number 44, the principal room contains a chamfered axial beam with run-out stops and a fireplace with stone rubble jambs and a chamfered lintel with run-out stops. Mortices in a cross beam indicate the former location of the cross passage's left wall. Several doors, dating to around 1700, including fielded-panel doors, are present. There are two china cupboards on the first floor, one of which was removed from the ground floor. The original roof trusses remain beneath a later roof; these are pegged with 'X' apexes and slim collars halved and pegged onto the principals. The arrangement suggests a possible 18th-century re-roofing, although the scroll stops may be unusually late.