53, High Street

No. 53 High Street is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dated 1711 and altered in the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone with a straw thatch roof and features brick end and ridge stacks. The building has a three-unit plan, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has a four-window range.

The entrance is a 19th-century part-glazed door located to the left of centre, set in a pegged wood surround with a wood lintel and a 19th-century gabled porch. This door is flanked by three-light leaded casement windows, one with a stop-chamfered wood lintel to the left and the other with a stone lintel to the right, both featuring hood moulds. There is also a small low two-light stone mullion window to the right.

On the first floor, there are three-light leaded ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows to the left and centre, both with hood moulds, and a longer two-light window to the right of centre. A central gabled dormer window features a two-light ovolo-moulded mullion window and a datestone above inscribed with DF/LS/1711.

To the right, there is a lower two-storey one-bay wing that projects and has similar two-light windows on both the ground and first floors. The building is accented with quoins and stone-coped gables with kneelers.

Inside, the house features ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams, some ogee-stop-chamfered joists, and an open fireplace with a stop-chamfered cambered bressumer. The staircase is a dog-leg design with turned and twisted balusters and newel posts topped with round and polygonal finials.