34, 36 AND 38, HIGH STREET

34, 36, and 38 High Street are three attached cottages that date from the 16th century, with additions from the 17th century and alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. They are constructed of random rubble and feature pantile and double-Roman tile roofs, supported by four brick stacks from the 19th century. The cottages have a very irregular frontage with a variety of architectural styles, standing one and two stories tall with attics, arranged in a 1:2:2:1:1 bay configuration.

The extreme left bay has 20th-century casement windows, with an opening to the first floor set in a gable. The next two bays are similar but larger, featuring a gable with an additional single attic light and three-light moulded stone-mullioned windows on the ground floor beneath stopped labels. The adjacent two bays have two-light bead-moulded stone-mullioned windows, except for a 19th-century flat-roofed canted bay on the left side of the ground floor, which has sash windows with glazing bars.

The next bay includes a chamfered three-light wooden mullioned window on the first floor, with leaded outer lights, and a two-light mullioned window in a gable for the attic. There is also a 12-pane sash window in a bead-moulded stone surround on the ground floor, next to a 20th-century 12-pane casement. The right bay features three-light ogee-moulded stone-mullioned windows.

There are three door openings on the frontage: number 38 has an early 19th-century six-panelled door, with the top two panels glazed, and a rubble 20th-century pent-roofed porch with a double-Roman tile roof. Number 36 has two door openings; the left one is an early 19th-century plank door with a central glazed panel, while the right is a 17th-century studded plank door with strap hinges in a chamfered wooden surround, set in a gabled rubble porch with a pantile roof. Number 34 features a door opening in the right return with a 20th-century half-glazed door.

These three cottages form a very important and picturesque group on the southeast side of the village green.