The primitive timber has been almost entirely superseded by the more "respectable" and secure brick front, but the interiors and the backs of the houses show that the construction is often really of wood with a thin veneer of old-fashioned respectability.

High Street leads on to Green Hill, now severed from the town by the railway, and becomes the main road northwards.

Near the end of the street, towards the railway stations, is a building of stone and brick thinly coated with plaster, roofed with stone tiles, and with a recessed porch and balcony.

The railing of the balcony especially should be noticed, being of unusual design, and very likely the work of the local blacksmith more than two hundred years ago.

The name, Almswood, reminds us that here was once a wood belonging to the office of the Almoner to the Abbey.