32, 32A and 32B High Street (EHER 38327)

A mid 16th century timber framed and rendered shops with flats, with 19th century alterations. The building has three parallel plain tile roofs, at right-angles to the frontage and behind a plain parapet. It is three storeys and there is a large, possibly 16th century block, to the rear of No.32A. The frontage was formerly jettied on each floor with two gables and now has three 20th century shop fronts with recessed entrances on the ground floor.

September 1971. Grade II listed. A mid 16th century timber framed and rendered shops with flats, with 19th century alterations. The building has three parallel plain tile roofs, at right-angles to the frontage and behind a plain parapet. It is three storeys and there is a large, possibly 16th century block, to the rear of No.32A with a further single-storey red-brick 19th century extension. There is a 20th century flat-roofed brick-built rear extension to No.32. The rear gable of No.32A wraps partially across rear gable of No.32. There are three 20th century shop fronts with recessed entrances on the ground floor. Internally, the two eastern bays consist of a mid 16th century three-storey timber frame, formerly jettied on each floor and originally with two gables to the front. A further bay of roof projected rearward from No.32, and at its removal the open truss frame was infilled with studwork. The rear wall of No.32A has a diamond-mullioned window above tie-beam level, now infilled with daub. To the rear of this is a very large square chimney stack of probable early 17th century date. The upper storey construction of Nos 32 and 32A is an unusually early example of lack of continuity in the framing with a three-bay roof over a two-bay concept on the ground and first floor. No.30 has a timber frame of the 17th century, three bays in depth and possibly with earlier work on the ground floor. <1> See photos <2>.