25 High Street

House with possible ground floor shop, constructed during the late-C18 or early-C19, altered in the C20.

MATERIALS: the building is of red brick in Flemish bond with a timber shop front to the principal, west elevation, and stucco window heads and cills. The roof covering is slate.

PLAN: the building is arranged on a rectangular plan with shorter elevations to the west and east. The main entrance and principal elevation are to the west onto High Street, with the rear elevation facing a yard accessed from Victoria Street to the south. A passageway (Ironmongers Lane) connects this yard to the High Street between numbers 23 and 25.

EXTERIOR: the building is of three storeys across two bays under a pitched roof. The late-C20 ground-floor shopfront has panelled timber stall risers and pilasters and large fixed windows, with a canted entrance containing a glazed door and plain over light, and a deep, plain fascia board over. The shopfront is contiguous with that at number 27. Above, the first and second floors each carry a pair of timber sash windows with rusticated stucco flat-arched heads and stucco cills. The first-floor windows have two-over-two glazing with horns while the second-floor windows have four-over-eight glazing and may be original. Above, there is a moulded timber eaves. On the ground floor of the rear (east) elevation is a wide opening under a segmental arch containing a pair of plank doors and a blocked over light above. To the north is a narrow, two-pane sash with horns under a segmental-arched head. On the first floor are a pair of eight-over-eight glazed timber sashes with timber surrounds and stucco cills under segmental-arched heads. There are two windows on the second floor. In the southern bay there is a tripartite window set flush with the brickwork under a flat-arched head, with a central, six-over-six glazed sash flanked by two-over-two glazed sashes. In the north bay is a six-pane timber casement with a segmental-arched head and stucco cill.