8-24, HIGH STREET

This building comprises five shops with offices above. It was constructed in 1897, with later alterations in the late 20th century. Originally designed as a single retail space for William Fosters & Sons Ltd., a gentlemen's outfitter, it was built by Flockton, Gibbs & Flockton of Sheffield. The building is constructed from steep-pitched slate roofed sandstone ashlar with matching dressings. It features two gable and four ridge grouped ashlar stacks. It is built in a French Domestic Gothic style.

The exterior presents a four-storey and attic structure with a fifteen-window frontage. The windows are primarily plain sashes. To the left side are two windows, followed by a deeply set four-light round-headed window with tracery above the office entrance. To the right is a triple window flanked by five windows on each side, with another triple window beyond, to the right. The single windows have moulded surrounds and segment-headed tracery. The triple windows have plain flat heads. The second floor features similar fenestration with canted bay windows. The third floor has windows with moulded flat-headed tracery. Above, an eaves band with shields and flower heads leads to a pierced parapet with Gothic tracery. Above the eaves are several dormers, including a central, crocketed dormer with a finial, flanked by two smaller dormers and a tiny dormer. A tourelle with a spire is positioned to the right. A larger dormer is situated above the office entrance, accompanied by flanking tourelles with spires, and a smaller and a tiny dormer to the left. A square elevator tower rises behind the entrance dormer, decorated with corbel tables, tracery, and a pierced parapet. The ground floor now features five shopfronts from the late 20th century. The interior of the building has not been inspected.