1, HIGH TOWN (See details for further address information)

This is a late 18th and early 19th century shop and dwelling, situated at 1 High Town, with a returned side facing Widemarsh Street. The front elevation is painted brick with a hipped slate roof, featuring slate hung gable ends with 20th-century composite tiles and a brick stack to the rear. It has four storeys, an attic, and a cellar. The front features a single-window range with 8/8 sash windows in moulded cases, beneath rendered flat arches to the first and second floors, and a smaller 4/4 sash above. A coped parapet tops the facade. The shop front, dating from the late 19th century, has a central part-glazed door flanked by plate-glass windows, with a deep moulded fascia board and hood supported by enriched consoles. The left returned side, facing Widemarsh Street, is unpainted and has two tiers of 6/6, 6/6, and 3/3 sash windows (two of which are blocked), set within gauged brick and rendered flat arches. There is a returned shop front with clerestory lights and a doorway with an overlight, now converted into a window, under a moulded stone lintel with a simple hood.

The interior features a 19th-century dogleg staircase with stick balusters leading to the attic. The attic contains late 18th and early 19th century roof trusses. The third floor includes a 19th century fireplace with a hob-grate. The second floor retains mutilated chamfered ceiling beams, some stop-chamfered, an early 19th century firegrate and surround, panelled window risers, architraves to windows and doors, skirting, and alcoves with beaded architraves. On the first floor there is a damaged late 19th century marble fireplace, coving, a ceiling rose, panelled window risers, architraves, skirting and alcoves with beaded architraves, and stop-chamfered ceiling beams. The cellar is lined with stone and brick.

Adjacent to this property at 2 Widemarsh Street is an early 19th century house and shop, now a shop, constructed of brick with a slate roof. It is three storeys high and has a two-window range with 20th-century 3/3 casements beneath fanlights and keyed grooved stucco arches, and 6/6 sashes within beaded cases under stone lintels, topped by a 20th-century parapet. Wrought-iron balconettes are present. The early 19th century shop front has a central door, with a former entrance to the left that has been glazed. Internally, a 20th-century winder staircase leads to the first floor. The second floor has two massive chamfered posts, a 19th-century fireplace with a 20th-century gas fire, and a hanging fireplace. The first floor retains two massive chamfered posts and ceiling beams. 2 Widemarsh Street was initially listed on June 10, 1952.