105, High Street

This is an early 19th century shop and flat. It is timber-framed with a front of stuccoed brick and gabled plain tile roofs. The roof is continuous with the adjacent building at No. 107. The exterior features a plain parapet, a moulded timber cornice above the window heads, and two full-height segmental bows with recessed 16-pane sash windows with curved glass on each floor. A smaller, multi-paned sash window with margin glazing is on the first floor, with a pair of consoles attached to the cornice above. The projecting door surround has a double-stepped cornice and a recessed, contemporary door with two glazed upper panels, moulded centre panels, two flush lower panels, panelled reveals, a rectangular fanlight, a stone step with two cast-iron boot scrapers, and an iron cellar grille below the southeast bow. The rear elevation displays two unequally projecting rendered gables. One gable, to the northeast, has a large tripartite small-paned sash window with margin glazing in red glass on the ground floor. Above this, and on the centre line of the other gable, are small-paned sash windows also with margin glazing, and a door with similar early 19th century details.

The interior front range has a symmetrical plan with a central entrance corridor leading to a blocked, arch-headed opening on consoles. Hardwood spine beams and some original early 19th century studwork are exposed on the ground floor. One room contains a marble fireplace. An open-well staircase to the rear has a half-elliptical plan with stick balusters, a wreathed hardwood handrail, and is cantilevered with a continuous curved soffit, shaped tread ends. It leads to a first-floor landing with curved side walls and a circular ceiling light with margin glazing and coloured glass (red, blue, and clear) inserts. A similar upper-level landing has a curved cupboard beneath. The first-floor front rooms have early 19th century marble fireplaces, one with a 19th-century cast-iron basket. A large ground-floor room in the projecting northeast wing features a moulded plaster cornice and ceiling rose, and the previously noted large tripartite window has internal folding shutters. A back door incorporates fragments of a late medieval carved doorhead, reused as part of the arch. Some poor quality timber-framing is exposed in rear rooms.