5a, 7, 9 and 11 High Street with attached outbuildings

A row of houses and commercial premises of late 17th-century to 19th-century date with attached outbuildings and 20th-century alterations, constructed of coursed squared ironstone and painted brick. The roofs are covered in thatched reed and slate with brick ridge and end stacks. The windows are timber sashes and casements.

The left range (5a and 7) comprises two storeys with a central carriageway. The right range is of two principal phases, two storeys with attics to the central (9/Vandyplank) and right (11) bays. Number 9 has a two-storey rear wing and a cellar. Number 11 has a two-storey 19th-century front addition in brick and single-storey outbuildings and attached garden wall to the rear.

The road front features a central four-bay range set back behind a front garden with a low brick wall. To the right is a 19th-century door to 'Vandyplank' with a 19th-century canted bay window to its left. The 12-pane sash windows have moulded stone sills, surrounds and lintels with keyblocks. A datestone inscribed M/IE 1752 is positioned between the upper left windows. The steep part-thatched roof has a ridge stack and stone coped verges, extending by a further two bays to the right (11) behind a 19th-century painted brick front that extends forward to the pavement edge. A late 20th-century timber shopfront occupies the ground floor, with a 19th-century door featuring a keystone and hood mould to the left. The sashes above are in modified openings, with an inserted attic casement to the gable and decorative bargeboards. The stone gable elevation at the east end has a casement under a timber lintel to each floor.

To the left of the four-bay front, the coursed stone gable end of the attached building (7) faces east with a boarded opening to the steep gable. The road front has a four-panel door with reeded pilaster surround. On the ground floor to the right of the door is a 19th-century sash window; to the left is a 20th-century casement window with timber lintel. Above are 19th-century casement windows with timber lintels set within the eaves under the shared roof thatch, spanning across a carriageway. The roof has coped stone gables with kneelers. Number 5a has a single-bay road front with an opening to the upper left. The carriageway elevations to both buildings have a door and opposing niches that may relate to former gates. Parts of the walls are covered in historic render.

To the rear of 7 is a red brick two-storey 19th-century addition with casements and a door under timber lintels, and a dentil eaves cornice facing the rear garden. The brick addition is built against the west end gable of the mid-18th-century house, below the kneeler to the coped roof verge. The mid-18th-century bay is built against the slightly taller end gable of the primary late 17th to early 18th-century house, also with a kneelered coped verge.

The rear elevation of 9/Vandyplank has a brick lean-to to the right and an ironstone two-storey rear service wing to the centre with a tall brick end stack above a stone outshut built against the end elevation. The outshut has a plank end door and casement to the right. To the left is a single-bay red brick bathroom addition. Further left, the rear of 11 High Street has casements to each floor under timber lintels and a door to the right. There is some disturbance to the stonework indicating reordering of openings at ground floor level. Along the east boundary are single-storey stone and brick outbuildings at least partly constructed of reused materials, largely hidden by foliage.

Internally, 5a is arranged as a single room to each floor with a late 20th-century staircase. Number 7 has a modern dental surgery reception to the front room with a late 20th-century winder stair. The rear room has an 18th to 19th-century chimneypiece with later alterations and fitted cupboards to each side. The building appears to retain a 19th-century plan and joinery including rebated shutters, doors and fitted cupboards, some with metal fitments.

Number 9 High Street (Vandyplank) has an entrance hall with a mid-19th-century staircase with turned balustrade and other 19th-century joinery including doors and door architraves and pine floorboards. The ceiling beams are boxed in. The cellar has exposed beams indicative of a late 17th-century date. Many fittings to the first floor are of later 20th-century date with boxed-in beams. The attic floor retains some reused historic panelling and some of the exposed oak roof trusses are crudely worked. The roof arrangement broadly conforms to a 17th or early 18th-century date and survives with most primary and some secondary elements in situ.

Number 11 High Street has a 20th-century boarded internal lobby opening into an open-plan late 20th-century shop with kitchens to the rear with no historic fittings. The upper floors have also been reordered with a late 20th-century staircase and partial replacement of the roof. A mid-19th-century staircase similar to that in Vandyplank has been moved and installed at the east end of the first and attic floor.

Subsidiary features include a coursed stone garden wall of multiple phases extending back in the plot of 11, attached to the stone and brick outbuildings. A red brick wall is attached to the rear lean-to of 7. To the front of 9 is a low red brick wall.