58 And 59, High Street

A house in a row, dating from the late 15th or 16th century. The front of the building is timber-framed and rendered, with a tile roof. It forms the end house of a terrace, originally with jetties, that included numbers 56 and 57. A throughway, Mann's Court, is located to the left. The building is two storeys high and has two windows on the front. The first floor has three-light casement windows. The ground floor features two bowed shop fronts with multi-pane glazing; the one on the right is likely from the early 19th century, with panelled pilasters set on scroll consoles, and two glazed doors. A section of wall stack is visible. The throughway, paved with stone, has two transverse beams and heavy braced framing containing two contiguous two-panel fielded doors. The smaller of these doors is set within a moulded architrave. The rear wing of number 59 has a heavily framed gable with brick nogging. The interiors have not been inspected but are likely similar to those of numbers 56 and 57. Numbers 56 to 59 appear to be of a common building date and retain fronts of modest scale, with low ceiling pitches, and a full-width eaves line along a long roof pitch, characteristics of late medieval town houses.