177 and 179 High Street (EHER 38370)

Nos 177 and 179 High Street are a 16th and 17th century timber framed and rendered building used as shops with flats above. It has an early 19th century rendered brick front with parapet, and a plain tile gambrel roof. The centre part of the block is a formerly jettied service-end cross-wing of probable 16th century date, with evidence for a central partition. To the north-west of this (No.177) is a two-bay structure of late 16th or early 17th century date.

December 1982. Grade II listed. Nos 177 and 179 High Street are a 16th and 17th century timber framed and rendered building used as shops with flats above. It has an early 19th century rendered brick front with parapet, and a plain tile gambrel roof. The building is two storeys with attics. No.177, to the west, has two recessed panels in the parapet and the ground floor has a 20th century hardwood shop front with fluted pilasters and perspex fascia. The central part (No.179) has a recessed panel in the parapet and a 20th century shop front of eight large panes, a 20th century entrance door and painted timber fascia on the ground floor. The eastern end of the frontage is rendered but without a parapet. There is a later timber framed and rendered parallel two-storey range to the rear, with a plain tile roof. To the rear of this are a 20th century Welsh-slate roofed rendered lean-to and a two-storey 20th century flat-roofed extension. The centre part of the block is a formerly jettied service-end cross-wing of probable 16th century date. This has jowled posts and evidence for a central partition. To the north-west of this (No.177) is a two-bay structure of late 16th or early 17th century date, with stop-chamfered girding beams. At some later period the complex was extended to the south-west and re-roofed with side purlins parallel to the street. <1> See photos <2>. No.177 abuts No.175 High Street to the north-west.