24 High Street South

A C17 or earlier timber-framed building, refronted in the C19, and with a C20 shop front.

MATERIALS: timber-framed with brick cladding and red plain tile roof covering.

PLAN: rectilinear, with a hipped range with the ridge parallel to the east (High Street South) elevation and a projecting shop front. To the rear (Middle Row) are double-pile gabled ranges and a projecting shopfront extension.

EXTERIOR: the building has two storeys. The High Street South elevation has a hipped roof and is brick, rendered at first floor level. There are two flush three-light sash windows at first floor level. Below, there is a projecting shop front to the ground floor with an offset, recessed door, with a tiled recess.

To the rear (Middle Row) elevation are a pair of gabled ranges with the gable ends towards Middle Row. The southern gable has a tall, brick chimney stack. Each gable end is rendered and white-washed. The left (north) gabled range has a large 20-light window. The right (southern) gable has a door with a 12-light window adjacent to it towards the south. There is a deep, projecting ground floor single-storey, flat-roofed range in brick laid in Flemish bond, with a central timber and glass door, and symmetrical, curved shop windows either side.