High Street runs from the junction of Thorpe Road with Sandy Lane to the T Junction at the Vernon Arms. At the time of the map there were the following businesses on High Street. The forge, wheelwright, saddle maker, weaver, The New Inn and general store which amongst other things sold groceries and haberdashery.
By 1900 the number of businesses had expanded and continued to change over the next 100 years to include the post office, fish and chip shop, a second grocers, glazier, carpenters workshop, electrical/radio/bicycle repair shop, and library. By 2025 only the village shop is still trading.
This 1907 map of the High street show how little it has changed over the years with just the addition of two new houses in the garden of the grange. The Left-hand side of the road is bookended with the two largest properties Glebe House once the farm house of Glebe farm, and The Grange
In 2025 a speed reduction scheme was put in place and a twenty mile an hour speed limit imposed in an attempt to reduce the speed of vehicles as they drive down High Street and on through the village.
Benvarden and Lime tree house
In 2009 John and Olga Bryant owners of the Grange, High Street, sold a large part of their garden to Kevin Lawns, a builder, property developer, who obtained permission to build two detached houses, (Benvarden and Lime tree house). Later that year the development won an Award for what I believe was the best small development of the year? Both houses were sold that year and are still possession of the original owners.
Glebe House
The house was originally built as a farmhouse in 1790. The front part of the house is original and a rear extension was added in mid-Victorian times. At some stage, early on, the barn next door (now no.1 Sandy Lane) was built along with a workshop used as a saddlery. This annex is still part of the Glebe House property; In 1921 we have a deed of transfer for the property between the “Incumbent of Cromer” (that is the rector) and William Bartram. It also included parcels of farmland along Sandy Lane and Long Lane, where Local Authority housing was subsequently built. We know that in 1901 William Bartram was living at Church Farm in Church Street and that his son James (b.1868) was a saddler. In the 1911 census James was described as living in
the first house in Upper Street with 5 rooms excluding “scullery, landing, lobby, closet, bathroom” which, given his occupation, may have been Glebe House
According to the 1939 Government Register prepared at the beginning of the Second World War there were two spinster sisters in residence, Susanna and Elizabeth Howes. Susanna was born in Yorkshire in 1871 and Elizabeth was born in Gunton in 1880. As girls the sisters had lived with their parents in Norwich and then Hanworth. By 1901 Susanna was living and working at the grocery and drapery store in Southrepps High Street. Susanna died on 8 August 1949, leaving £2742 and probate gave her address as Glebe House. Elizabeth died on 27 September 1971, leaving £5849 and probate gave her address also as Glebe House.
Since then a variety of residents have occupied the house and as at March 2025 it is the home of Michael and Carolyn Giddings.