25 High Street

This is a late 18th or early 19th century house, possibly originally with a ground floor shop, and altered in the 20th century. The building is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a timber shop front on the main, west-facing side. Stucco window surrounds and sills, and a slate roof complete the exterior.

The building is rectangular, with shorter west and east elevations. The main entrance and west elevation face High Street, while the rear elevation overlooks a yard accessed from Victoria Street to the south. A passageway, Ironmongers Lane, connects this yard to High Street between numbers 23 and 25.

The building is three storeys high, arranged over two bays, with a pitched roof. A late 20th century shop front features panelled timber stall risers and pilasters, large fixed windows, a canted entrance with a glazed door and plain overlight, and a deep fascia board, blending with the shop front at number 27. Above the shop front, the first and second floors each contain a pair of timber sash windows, with rusticated stucco flat-arched heads and stucco sills. The first-floor windows have two-over-two glazing with horns, while the second-floor windows have four-over-eight glazing, which may be original. A moulded timber eaves run along the top of the building. The ground floor of the rear (east) elevation features a wide segmental-arched opening containing plank doors and a blocked overlight. A narrow two-pane sash with horns and a segmental-arched head is located to the north. The first floor has a pair of timber sash windows with eight-over-eight glazing, timber surrounds, and stucco cills under segmental-arched heads. The second floor has two windows; the southern bay has a tripartite window set flush with the brickwork under a flat-arched head, comprising a central six-over-six glazed sash flanked by two-over-two glazed sashes, while the north bay has a six-pane timber casement with a segmental-arched head and stucco cill.