The Gifford Gallery Woburn Fine Arts

The Gifford Gallery and Woburn Fine Arts, formerly known as Nos. 4 and 5 High Street, is a Grade II* listed building located on the east side of Woburn Market Place. Originally a single house, it was divided into two parts, with the ground floor converted into two shops. The building dates from the early 18th century, while the shops were added in the late 18th century.

Constructed of red brick, the walls are dark due to many vitrified bricks, with lighter red dressings. It features a shallow pitched slate roof with deep eaves and stands three storeys tall. The first and second floors are divided into two bays by moulded brick giant order pilasters, with three windows on each floor. The windows are segmental-headed sashes with glazing bars, set in wide moulded wood cases that are almost flush with the wall. Each window is topped with gauged brick heads featuring painted fluted keystones and has moulded sills with brick aprons below.

On the ground floor, No. 11 has a projecting rectangular shop front with central glazed double doors flanked by large windows, all featuring glazing bars. The three bays are defined by four slender engaged columns that rise to form shepherd's crook brackets supporting a moulded projecting cornice. The upper parts of the windows have segmental-headed glazed panels with ornamental glazing bars in interlocking rings, along with decorative mouldings on the spandrels and frieze above.

No. 12 also has a projecting rectangular shop front with central double doors, each consisting of six panels, topped by a rectangular fanlight with ornamental glazing bars. The flanking windows also have glazing bars, and four slender moulded pilasters define the three sections of this shop front. The entablature features a segmental-headed panel spanning the width of the shop front, decorated with overlapping discs and moulded designs on the spandrels, topped by a simply moulded projecting cornice.

Between the two shop fronts, slightly off-centre, is a house doorway with double doors, each leaf having two flush panels and a glazed top panel, surmounted by a panel with segmental-headed moulding. The building has red brick ridge stacks at both gable ends.