16, High Street

No. 16 High Street is a house located in Hatherleigh, dating from the early 17th century, with possible earlier origins and a late 17th or early 18th-century addition. The building features plastered cob walls and a gable-ended thatch roof. There is a projecting plastered rubble stack at the right gable end, with a brick shaft, and a rendered lateral stack at the rear wing, which likely consists of a slightly later addition.

The house is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical two-window front. At the left end, there is a slight projection with a 20th-century plank door leading to a passageway. Above this is a canted bay window, and a late 18th or early 19th-century horizontal three-light sliding sash window with 18 panes, flanked by three-pane lights on either side. A similar three-light horizontal sliding sash window is found on the right side on each floor.

Inside, the passageway features a chamfered 17th-century doorframe at the rear with a contemporary studded plank door, and the passage has a brick floor. The right-hand room contains an open fireplace with a chamfered and stopped wooden lintel and chamfered stone jambs, with the left-hand jamb incised with the initials I.M and the date 1757. There is also a stone oven on the left side. The first floor retains early plank doors and oak floorboards, and the old lime plaster is preserved on the internal walls and ceilings. While there is no access to the roof space over the house, the feet of straight principals are visible on the first floor. The roof over the rear outbuilding is a late 18th or 19th-century structure with straight principals, onto which the wany collars are lapped and pegged. This house remains in a very unaltered state both internally and externally.