26 to 30 High Street (EHER 30110)

A 15th century timber framed house, now a shop and two houses. It has late 16th, 18th, 19th and 20th century alterations. The roof is covered in handmade red plain tiles.

June 1974. Grade II* listed. A 15th century timber framed house, now a shop and two houses. It has late 16th, 18th, 19th and 20th century alterations. The roof is covered in handmade red plain tiles. The building comprises a two-bay hall facing north-west and a three-bay crosswing to the right, extending to the rear. There is a 20th century single-storey lean-to extension to the rear. A second three-bay crosswing is attached to the left to left, extending to the rear, with an 18th/19th century one-bay extension. <1> <2> See photos <3>. Shop, 'Lahana', plus one other tenement: late 14th century hall house, with central roof raised and rebuilt. Cross wings originally jettied. Much of the original frame remains. A messuage once known as Fanners or Tanners now divided into three tenements. General appearance of a late medieval hall house with two crosswings. Both crosswings front-jettied but underbuilt to accommodate shop windows. Original hall roof raised and distal ends of both crosswings extended in the late 17th century, late 18th century and mid 19th century. Staircase wing is situated to the rear of the hall and north crosswing. Original hall probably built in the 15th century and crosswing added in the later 15th-early 16th century. House was probably a merchant's house by the mid-late 16th century. The later modifications have not spoiled the 'H-shaped' plan of the earlier building, much of which survives. <4> House, two tenements, 30 yards north-north-east of EHER 30109, has cross-wings at the north and south ends. The upper storey projected at the west ends of the cross-wings, but in the south wing it has been under-built. <5> Original HER entry merged with NRHE data transfer.