Further down the same street is the Old Grammar School where John Constable, the famous painter, attended.

Dating from the 13th Century this building was originally owned by the Benedictine monks, hence the name, but later became a wealthy Elizabethan merchants house.

It is now a private house offering bed and breakfast in historic surroundings.

This absolutely stunning house has brick infill in a herring-bone pattern rather than the usual wattle and daub. This means that whoever had the house built originally was very well off indeed as bricks, at that time, were very expensive.