69, Broad Street

No. 69 Broad Street is a house and shop built around the 1860s, possibly with earlier origins. It is constructed from red brick with stucco bands, featuring a concealed roof and a tall left side stack adorned with a modillion frieze, along with a timber shop front.

The building stands three storeys high with an attic and cellar, and has three first-floor windows. The first and second floors are fitted with plain horned sash windows that have a continuous sill band on the second floor. These windows feature chamfered jambs and double chamfered lintels that are integrated into continuous stucco bands above. The third floor has a central two-light window with a columnar mullion, which interrupts the eaves brackets and dentil cornice, topped with a gable that includes an oculus in a polyfoil surround. The shop front includes late 20th-century pilasters, console brackets, fascia, and cornice, while the 19th-century windows display carved decoration on the spandrels. The window to the right has a slender mullion, and the windows to the left and right have glazing that curves into an off-centre left entrance glazed door with an overlight, all featuring margin lights.

Inside, the building retains some joinery and plasterwork that is contemporary to the facade, including cornices and a staircase on the upper floors with turned balusters. The staircase leading from the ground floor was installed around the 1960s. This building is a substantially complete surviving example of its type, contributing to the group value of the area and occupying a significant site near the junction of Broad Street, High Street, and The Cross, where it helps form the vista.

No. 69 is part of a significant group of listed buildings on Broad Street, which includes Nos 10, 10A, 11, the Crown Inn, 12, 18, 19, 29, 32-36 (consecutive), 40, 41, 43-49 (consecutive), 51-63 (consecutive), 69, 70, and the Church of All Saints. Nos 69 and 70 also form a group with Nos 31 and 32 The Cross and Nos 61-65 (consecutive) High Street.