Listed Building: No. 53 High Street (9/60)

House, formerly farmhouse. Dated 1711, altered C19. Coursed squared ironstone, straw thatch roof, brick end and ridge stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range. C19 part-glazed door to left of centre in pegged wood surround with wood lintel and C19 gabled porch, flanked by 3-light leaded casement windows with stop-chamfered wood lintel to left, stone lintel to right, both with hood moulds. Small low 2-light stone mullion window to right. 3-light leaded ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows to first floor left and centre with hood moulds, a similar longer 2-light window to right of centre. Central gabled dormer window with 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window and datestone above inscribed DF/LS/1711. Lower 2-storey 1-bay wing projects to right with similar 2-light windows to ground and first floors. Quoins and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Interior: ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams, some ogee-stop-chamfered joists, open fireplace with stop-chamfered cambered bressumer. Dog-leg staircase with turned and twisted balusters and newel posts with round and polygonal finials.

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Jul 5 2021 9:57AM