3, High Street

This is a mid-19th century house, now a shop with associated hotel accommodation, built on the site of a 16th-century or earlier structure. The front facade is colourwashed brick with painted stone dressings, and it has a hipped clay pantiled roof with ridges at right angles to the street, concealed behind parapets. The ground floor is occupied as a shop, open to both the rear wing and the adjacent No. 1.

The main building is three storeys high and two bays wide. The ground floor has a modified 19th-century shop front. The original doorway on the left has been blocked and replaced with a window, with the entrance now set in a central recess framed by a slim fascia and cornice. Above the shop front is a shallow canted bay window with plain sash windows on each facet, topped by parapets and flat roofs at the second floor level. The main parapet is slightly higher.

Inside, the ground floor front room to the right features a moulded jetty post and bracket approximately 1.5 metres from the shop front, with a deep mortise for a transverse bracket that once supported a moulded bressumer. The party wall to the right displays wainscot with deeply butted plain planks set between structural posts from the original framing, with a deep boxed transverse beam carried on a wider boxed beam behind. To the left, remains of a four-compartment 16th-century ceiling include chamfered beams with run-out stops. The front bressumer mouldings have been cut away at this end. A room originally separated from the main front portion has heavy, closely-spaced ceiling joists and deep chamfered beams. A four-light casement window in cast iron, with cusped heads to the lights and small diamond panes, is located diagonally across the corner to the left.

The lower rear wing features four transverse boxed beams and two early 19th-century, four-over-twelve-over-four pane sash windows with head panelling, but lacking shutters. Upper floors provide hotel accommodation, continuing from the adjoining No. 3. On the first floor, a lounge has deep chamfered beams and a large central boxed beam. A former external wall now includes a two-light cast-iron casement with diamond panes, and a door leading to a staircase with an early 18th-century dog-leg design, a solid string, fine turned balusters, and a moulded handrail that returns to the upper landing. The wing also has a corridor to the right containing inserted bedrooms, with some crossing beams.

The front roof has chamfered wind-bracing. The second floor of the wing shows heavy principals to the roof trusses with collars, purlins, and cambered ties in six bays. The rooms are mostly in 20th-century detail, but the chamfered purlins are exposed.