Building record 1090600000 - 98 HIGH STREET

Grade II. Medieval C17 and C18. Right hand part one storey and attic, timber framed with painted brick infill tiles; 2-light casements and door on left, modern 3-light dormer. Left hand part 2 storeys, colour washed rubble stone with fragments of timber-framing on left with curved brace and projecting floor joists. One 3-light casement to each floor. Single-storey addition on left and rendered boundary wall of witchert. Interior has 2 cruck trusses, one in party wall with No 96 [CASS 1090500000] the other partly concealed by large stack in centre. Chamfered fireplace beams. No 96 and 98 probably formed from a 2-bay cruck hall with jettied cross wing (B1).
Dendro-dating of cruck indicated felling dates of 1430-1475 (B2).
Architect's drawings of existing building (B3).
3 cruck trusses with single curve blades. Source: Martin Andrew, Buckinghamshire CC (B4).
Building survey and dendro-dating carried out in 1993 and March 1994 suggest the building was constructed as a two-bay (or larger) hall house using timber with a felling date range of 1430-1461. A chamber occupied bay 3, with an open hall and hearth in bay 4, possibly with a roof louvre. A gallery may possibly have run across the front of the house at first-floor level between bays 3 and 5 (if this existed). Two cruck trusses remain (only one is visible), terminating just above the high collar (type 'W'). In the 18th century the eastern-most bays were demolished, leaving part of bay 4 as a lean-to, and in 1731 a needle-maker's cupboard was inserted beside the fireplace in bay 3. Sometime after 1910 the house was extended into bay 2 of the adjacent property (96 High Street). See report for detail (B3).