114, 114A, 116, 116A, HIGH STREET

This early 19th century house, now used as offices, a flat, and shops, consists of a main block with parallel rear ranges. Numbers 114 and 114A are of red brick with Gault brick dressings and a slate roof, gabled to the front and hipped to the rear. Number 116 is of Gault brick with a hipped slate roof, and number 116A is of Gault brick with a gabled slate roof.

The main block (number 116) is three storeys high with a cellar, featuring a five-window range and two-storey blocks either side of the frontage. It has a blocking course and a moulded brick dentilled cornice. The second floor has five two-light windows with gauged brick flat arches. A raised double string band divides the storeys, and the first floor features five French windows with 20th-century metal frames, set behind a balcony of cast-iron decorative balusters. The ground floor has two canted stuccoed bay windows supporting a balcony, with sash windows featuring central vertical glazing bars and corner pilasters. A central door surround of matching stucco pilasters frames a recessed door and panelled reveals. The rear wings are two storeys high, one with a 19th-century canted bay window, and there are 20th-century extensions.

Numbers 114 and 114A have a moulded brick parapet and a two-light casement window above a 19th-century shop front with four lights, a transom, and a door with a rectangular fanlight. The north-west flank has an early 19th century shop front of three lights, with pilasters and a cornice/hood. The south-west flank has two doors and a two-light casement on each storey. Number 116A has a moulded brick parapet and a 20th-century window under a gauged brick flat arch on the first floor, with a tall 19th-century shop front with fascia on the ground floor. The south-east flank is of rendered brick with a 20th-century canted oriel window at first floor.

Inside, a ground-floor room of the main block has an elliptical-headed recess with a keystone and panelled pilasters, along with a simple plaster cornice. Another front room has a modillioned plaster cornice and semicircular arched recesses flanking a former fireplace. The staircase has a pilaster-like motif at the top and bottom supporting the handrail. One first-floor room has a fireplace with a shouldered architrave.