50 and 50a, High Street

50 and 50A High Street is a building that originally served as shops and offices, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of gault brick with Portland stone dressings and features a slate hipped roof over the front range. The building stands four storeys high with a cellar and has a symmetrical three-bay layout, with a 20th-century flat-roofed extension at the rear.

The front of the building is adorned with a blocking-course parapet and a dentilled brick cornice. It is framed by four giant pilasters with stone caps, which delineate the two wide outer bays and the narrow central bay. On the third floor, there are tripartite sash windows in each wide bay, featuring margin glazing and rubbed brick flat arches. The second floor has deeper tripartite small-paned sashes. The first floor is notable for two semicircular oriels with leaded flat roofs, small-paned sashes, and pilasters with hybrid capitals. The ground floor displays a 19th-century fascia with a dentilled cornice supported by elaborate consoles, along with two 20th-century plate-glass shop fronts. The door on the west side has four moulded panels above two flush panels and a blocked rectangular fanlight.

At the rear, there is the southern half of an earlier roof, which consists of two plain tile lean-tos with two hipped dormers and a gabled dormer-like extension that houses a staircase. A remnant of a 19th-century stack is present against the rear of the front range. Additionally, there is a further two-storey rear extension at right angles, featuring a slate roof, rendered walls, and a ridgeline stack.

Inside, some late 17th-century roof framing is exposed on the upper floors of the rear part, including a butt side purlin.