High Street

The High Street is the route from the Thames through the village and on to London, which would have been in use from the building of Windsor Castle and royal provision of a ferry across the river. Several of the High Street houses can be traced back to the 1500s, although their origins are probably much earlier than that. In this very public street houses were rebuilt or the fronts were fashionably updated, particularly during the Georgian period. On the riverside corners owners seemed particularly aware of being seen from the viewpoint of Datchet Bridge and the Windsor side of the Thames.


Numbers 6 & 8 High Street, Old Butcher & Dairy Shops

Numbers 6 & 8 High Street, Old Butcher & Dairy Shops

(Click on pictures to enlarge) Introduction to 6 & 8 High Street Since the first years of the 20th century these two dwellings have been landmark shops in the village. Number eight is into its second century as a butcher's and number six survived...
Goodwyn House, 12 High Street

Goodwyn House, 12 High Street

Introduction This extremely good-looking house should properly be called 'Goodwin  House' as it was owned by the rich and powerful Goodwin family of gentleman farmers who, from the 1780s to the 1840s, owned or tenanted five farmsteads in the village ...
Number 20 High Street, the 'Hall House'

Number 20 High Street, the 'Hall House'

  Introduction This complex building has a clear traceable history back to the 1590s, although parts of a much older house remain at its core. From the early 1600s the building was an alehouse or tavern, at first called the Rose and then ...
Numbers 25–29, Little Dene, The Cottage and Clifton House

Numbers 25–29, Little Dene, The Cottage and Clifton House

Introduction These three modest red-brick Georgian houses appear to be a short terrace but the northern one, Little Dene, was built some time after the other two which were always a pair. There is a persistent local story that they were built as a...
Number 31, St Helen's Cottage

Number 31, St Helen's Cottage

Introduction This very attractive house is an eighteenth century brick rebuild of a seventeenth century timber framed building. Evidence of the earlier timber frame can be seen in its north end wall. The chequered brick pattern was very fashionable...
Numbers 33–39, Park Villas

Numbers 33–39, Park Villas

These two pairs of substantial semi-detached villas were built in about 1850 on the site of several very old houses and cottages which can be traced back to the 1590s as part of Robert Barker's estate. Since 1775 the cottages had belonged to James...
Old Bridge House and Post House

Old Bridge House and Post House

Introduction: the Haydock Group These two houses, together with the site of Park Villas  next up the High Street and Datchet Lodge  on the opposite riverside corner, were all owned by James Haydock in the 1770s. He built Datchet Lodge  on the ancie...