123 and 125 High Street (EHER 38363)

Nos 123 and 125 High Street are an early 19th century and earlier house, now a shop, which retain elements of a late 16th/early 17th century and late 17th/early 18th century earlier timber framed structures. The two structures were refronted as one in the early 19th century with a red brick façade. It has several rear extensions from the 19th and 20th centuries, and a 20th century shop front.

September 1971. Grade II listed. Nos 123 and 125 High Street are an early 19th century and earlier house, now a shop. It is timber-framed and fronted with red brick in Flemish-bond. It has a roof covered in plain tile which is continuous with No.121 (EHER 38362) and behind a parapet. The building is two storey and has rear extensions. The ground floor has a central Doric porch, with unfluted columns with moulded stone bases and a frieze of linear interlace; the door has a glazed panel over two moulded panels and the reeded architrave once enclosed a semicircular fanlight, obscured by the porch. There is one cast-iron boot scraper adjoining the eastern column. No.123 has a canted bay window with plate glass and a moulded cornice. No.125 has an early 20th century shop front with fascia, blind box, one large glass pane and recessed glazed door. No.125 has a two-storeyed right-angled extension to the rear and then two further two-storeyed extensions, one with plain tiles and one with pantiles, of varying ridge height. To the rear of No.123 is a tall two-storey red-brick mid 19th century extension with slate pyramid roof and abutting this is a 20th century extension. Internally, it is apparent the building was originally two separate structures, which were refronted as one in the early 19th century. No.125 has one exposed and chamfered bridging joist and corner post apparently of the late 16th or early 17th century. The lower range to the rear has timber-framing of late 17th or early 18th century date. The ground-floor rooms of No.123 have reeded architraves with roundels at the intersections, one with a superimposed cornice. A tall rear room has an elaborate reeded cornice now concealed above a suspended ceiling. The central dogleg staircase has column newels and stick balusters. <1> See photos <2>. The building abuts No.121 (EHER 38362) to the west and Quest House to the east.