137, High Street

This is a house in a row, with a shop front, dating back to the 16th century, with a front facade dating from the early 18th century. It was altered and reroofed in the mid-19th century. The building incorporates a 2-room right-angle plan with a narrower, 2-bay rear range dating back to the 15th century.

The exterior is constructed of Flemish bond brickwork with square panel timber framing to the rear, covered by a tile roof, and features brick stacks. The front has plain sash windows with brick voussoirs and decorative keystones with cornices, and stone sills. A 19th-century pilaster shop front has a recessed entrance under a deep fascia with a moulded cornice and scrolled ends. The building has a stone modillion cornice, a rebuilt blocking course with a concrete coping, returned at the ends. A section of the party wall, shared with the adjacent property at No. 136, is timber-framed with a heavy plate and stone plinth course and includes two doorways, one blocked, the other with a moulded architrave. The rear of the main range features a wide gable, along with some timber framing and 20th-century brickwork, and a decayed 16-pane sash window. A 2-storey wing with heavy square timber framing and a gable stack is present, along with a further 2-storey framed wing including an attic and tiled roof.

The interior of the rear wing showcases a chamfered arch-braced truss with a moulded centre, corner jowl posts, and wind braces, ceiled above the collar. The front range includes a staircase on the right-hand side of the ground floor. On the first floor, there is a 17th-century scratch-moulded 9-panel cupboard with inscribed lozenges and flowers to the panels, beneath a roll-moulded cornice in the rear room. A 17th-century panelled door leads to an attic winder stair. The ground-floor rear room contains additional 17th-century cupboard doors and a carved Jacobean overmantel with terms.