Building record 1090500000 - 96 HIGH STREET

Grade II. C17 and earlier, altered. Two storeys, timber-frame and brick filling, modern weatherboarding to first floor. Concrete plain tiles. Door on right, 2-light casement on left, 2 small upper windows. Interior has curved timbers in trusses each side, upper part of cruck frames, one in party wall with No 98 [CASS 1090600000]. The other partly concealed by a large stack (B1).
3 cruck trusses with single curve blades. Source: Martin Andrew, Buckinghamshire CC (B2).
Building survey and dendro-dating carried out in January 1989 suggest the building was constructed as a two-bay (or larger) hall house using timber with a felling date range of 1494-1506. A chamber occupied bay 2, with an open hall and hearth in bay 1. Two cruck trusses remain, terminating just above the collar (type 'W'). An upper floor with elm joists was inserted in bay 1 in the seventeenth century, and sometime after 1910 bay 2 was incorporated into the adjacent property (98 High Street). See report for detail (B3).