97, High Street

This is an early 19th-century house, built on the site of earlier 17th and 18th-century houses. It is constructed of gault brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a slate roof. The house has a square plan and includes 19th-century two-story extensions to the left and rear. There are two internal chimney stacks. The front elevation has three stories and a six-window arrangement of sash windows, featuring glazing bars and set within gauged cambered arches. The roof is low-pitched and hipped, with long, projecting eaves. Parts of an early 18th-century kitchen and brewhouse were incorporated into the main house. The original staircase retains turned balusters and a moulded handrail. Early 19th-century details are found throughout, including fire surrounds and segmental panelled doors. The house, formerly known as Colne Place, was the childhood home of Thomas Fowell Buxton from 1786 to 1809, and he later became a colleague and successor to William Wilberforce in the campaign for the abolition of slavery.