21 High Street

21 High Street is a public meeting room that has been converted into a shop. It was built in 1841 and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The building is made of rendered stone with painted stone dressings and features a roof that is hidden behind a parapet. It stands three storeys high and has three bays. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front that spans its full width.

On the first floor, there are three semi-circular headed windows surrounded by pilasters, with moulded archivolts, panelled keystones, and large dentilled open pediments supported by consoles and dosserets. The windows display a mix of leaded lights and 20th-century casements. A moulded sill stringcourse runs along the building, and a similar string-course on the second floor is interrupted by moulded brackets that support the sills of three six-pane sash windows, which are framed by eared architraves with paterae in the top corners. Above, there is a stepped frieze and a bracketed cornice, with plain parapets that have moulded copings. The building also features reduced side wall stacks.

This structure was built as a competitor to the Subscription Rooms, which were established in 1826 across the street.