20, 22 and 24 High Street (EHER 25993)

Late 14th century H-plan hall house.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Mid 14th century, open hall with crosswings. It is timber-framed and plastered with a red plain tile roof. Modern shops to ground floor frontage. The northern wing is of three bays plus a small smoke bay at the rear. No jowls on principal posts, soffit tenon floor joists, cambered tie beams, and some stop chamfering to main frame. There are crown post roofs, with four armed octagonal crown posts with moulded bases and capitals. Hall collars pegged to collar purlin. The first floor inserted into the hall range and roof raised about 1600. Some good late 17th and early 18th century doors remain. The cross wings originally gabled to the streets and jettied at the north end. <1> Nos 20, 22, and 24 High Street. Shops, formerly a house of the late 14th century. Grade II*. <2> See: <3>