10, High Street

No. 10 High Street is a vicarage, originally opened as a hotel in 1814, with subsequent additions and alterations, and now converted into flats. The building is constructed of reddish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and features cast-iron balconies and tympana.

The exterior presents three storeys with a three-window range to the left and taller three-story section with a six-window range to the right. A central projection is on the left-hand side, while the right-hand range also projects. Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to the ground floor, topped by pilasters with incised decoration at the ends of the left range, and Tuscan pilasters on the projection. The left range’s first floor includes a sill band and remnants of casement windows with tooled architraves; the central window has a cornice on consoles. The right range features some original four-pane French windows with tympana displaying Grecian enrichment in round-arched reveals and tooled architraves. The ground floor of the left range has an entrance below the second window, accessed via a porch supported by two Tuscan pillars. Flanking the entrance are canted bays with tooled surrounds to window openings, a frieze, and a dentil cornice, with a hood extending over the door. The right range has three tall openings and a wide bay window. The second floor of the left range has three square openings with remnants of two-over-two sash windows in plain reveals and tooled architraves. The frieze and cornice of the left range extends as a second-floor sill band to the right range, where openings retain remnants of one-over-one sash windows with margin-lights in plain reveals and tooled architraves. A tall ridge stack with a cornice is also present. Three individual balconies with a double-heart-and-anthemion motif are located on the right range, followed by a continuous balcony featuring a scroll motif. The rear of the building was rebuilt and extended in the late 20th century. The interior remains uninspected.

Historically, High Street, originally known as Warwick Row and laid out in 1813, was the former route from Warwick to London.