37 And 39, High Street

Two houses, dating to the mid-17th century, with a later 17th-century addition and remodeling in the early 19th century. They are now two shops with a flat above. The houses are timber-framed, with a rendered front and a rebuilt red brick front wall. They have a slate roof and an L-plan, with a three-bay front and a rear wing of three bays and a lower two-bay addition. The main part of the building is three storeys high, while the rear wing is partly two storeys. A dentil brick cornice runs along the top of the front wall. There is a brick stack on the right and an integral brick end stack to the three-storey rear wing. The windows are irregularly spaced, with glazing bar sashes; the first floor has 16-pane windows (glazing bars removed), the second floor has 12-pane windows, all with painted stone sills and lintels. The ground floor has a pair of early to mid-19th century shop fronts, with later plate glass windows. The shop on the left has windows flanking a central pair of half-glazed doors; the shop on the right has a window and a recessed glazed door to the left. Both shop fronts have surrounds consisting of quarter pilasters with acanthus capitals, a fascia, and a cornice, with brackets on the shop on the left. A boarded door leads to a side passage on the right, with a two-part rectangular overlight above. Above the left-hand shop doorway is a former illuminated sign and a sign advertising "LYONS CAKES," both suspended from a bracket. At the rear, there is a two-storey brick range, partly rebuilt, with a dentil brick eaves cornice, a boarded gabled dormer, and a central brick ridge stack. Inside, the ground-floor front rooms have pairs of chamfered spine beams. The attic over the front part of the building has collar and tie-beam trusses with queen struts. The lower rear wing has chamfered beams and collar and tie-beam trusses with queen struts and V-struts.