42 High Street

3 + 1-window to No 40, 2-window to Nos 41 and 42; scribed cement render fronts to Nos 40 and 41 and painted pebbledash to No42; rubble, brick and weatherboarded plinths. renewed slate roofs, wide boarded eaves, red brick chimney stacks, modern to No 42 rear verge. No 42 is slightly splayed back from Nos 40 and 41. Small pane sash windows with flush frames, 12-pane to 1st floor, and 16-pane below; 9-pane over the low carriage entry between Nos 40 and 41 (square headed to front and segmental arched to rear). 6-panel doors, part glazed to No 42. Slate hung left gable end. The passage has rubble base and is weatherboarded up to half its height; the original depth of the building is shown by the extent of the weatherboarding - the rear part is full height rubble walled. 2-storey modern extension at rear of No 40 to replace a brick cottage. The remainder of the rear is rubble with brick dressings. 3-windows to Nos 41 and 42 with lean-to and modern casement windows to the former and some small pane metal frame casement windows to the latter with lean-to porch.

The room over the passage in No 40 shows evidence of the earlier roof pitches as well as a blocked opening. The earlier timberwork is in oak, the later work in pine, No 41 has C18 roof with overlapping purlins and the central truss was once a partition; handrail sweeps up to top with balustrade; timber frame partitions to ground floor, No 42 has chamfered beams.