33-55, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)

This terrace comprises 13 almshouses and a school, built in the middle to late 18th century, with a mid-19th century rear extension to the school and late 19th century rear extensions to the almshouses. The school, located at the right end of the terrace, is now used as a betting office and social club. The buildings are constructed of brick in an English garden wall bond, with renewed clay pantile roofs and Welsh slate on the school’s extension. Brick stacks have been partly rebuilt.

The terrace is arranged as a single storey with 26 windows, featuring two-storey, one-window projecting end wings and a slightly projecting two-storey, two-window central cottage (No. 45). Boarded doors have been renewed at Nos. 35 to 43, and late 20th century glazed doors are found at Nos. 45 to 53A. Nos. 33 and 55 are accessed from their return sides. The majority of windows are late 20th century casements set within original openings, except for a tripartite window with a renewed middle sash on the first floor of No. 33. Gauged brick flat arches appear above most openings. A painted tablet between the floors at the school reads: "THIS PUBLICK SCHOOL HOUSE WAS ERECTED IN THE YEAR 1744 AND REBUILT IN 1773." No. 45 features a lozenge-shaped sundial dated 1776, positioned between its first-floor windows. The central cottage (No. 45) and end wings have hipped roofs with sprocketed eaves. Ridge stacks are situated at the junctions between the buildings and on the wings. The one-window inner return of the school shows a blocked doorway and horizontal sashes with glazing bars, altered on the first floor. The one-window inner return of No. 55 has a blocked door and a late 20th century door. The right return has been altered, and the three-window left return of No. 55 features a late 20th century door. A two-storey, two-bay rear extension is visible to the rear of No. 33. Later 20th century additions to the school, both at the right end and to the rear, are not considered to be of special interest.