19 and 21 High Street

Commercial and residential building, built between 1849 and 1851, possibly to designs by Robert Palgrave.

MATERIALS: the roof has a slate covering, and the walls are stuccoed over an ashlar limestone shopfront.

PLAN: the building is L-shaped on plan, facing west to High Street at the corner with Castle Lane.

EXTERIOR: 19 and 21 High Street is a five-bay four-storey building, facing west to High Street. It has a hipped roof hidden behind a parapet. The ground floor shopfront, replaced around 1915, is of ashlar limestone, and has a plain cornice, and rusticated piers and pilasters with a dentil course over head-height. The upper three floors are stuccoed. The first and second floors have giant fluted Corinthian pilasters to the end bays and half-columns to the central bays, with a full detailed entablature, forming a portico in antis. The five bays of the three upper floors have flat-arched architraves containing mid-C19 timber sash windows without horns. The central and end first-floor window surrounds each have a cornice on consoles, and a concave curved pediment with anthemion decoration to their apex. The second-floor window surrounds have eared architraves. The third floor has pilasters with vermiculated panels, carrying a frieze, cornice and blocking course with balustrades over the central and end bays.