9, High Street

This is an early 19th-century house and shop located on the north-east side of High Street in Whitchurch. The building is constructed of red brick, with a roof hidden from view. It occupies a corner position, featuring a recessed quadrant at the angle. The building is three storeys high with a moulded wooden cornice and a rendered blocking course finished with stone coping. The front elevation has two bays on the left, one in the centre, and two bays on the right, featuring 20-pane glazing bar sash windows (with 16 panes on the second floor). These windows have painted stone sills and gauged brick heads. The corner features curved sash windows. The shop front is also from the early 19th century, with unfluted Ionic pilasters that once supported a frieze and cornice – although the frieze is now partly obscured by a 20th-century fascia. The shop front contains a pair of plate-glass windows flanking a curved central glazed door with an overlight. A right-hand first-floor window on the side elevation has been replaced by a late 19th-century wooden oriel. The interior was uninspected at the time of listing, but a single unfluted Ionic column was noted inside the shop. The building was formerly listed as ‘Premises occupied by R.D. Edwards Limited’ in 1951.