R Gwinnel And Sons, Funeral Directors Robert Clubb And Sons The Special Touch

This building is a corner terrace of three shops located on High Street in Manningtree. It dates from the 16th century or earlier, with 19th-century plastered brick walls. The roof is made of grey slate with a small hip, and there is a lower grey slate roof for the shop "Bikes and Things," which transitions to red pantiles for "The Special Touch" on the far right. The building features moulded eaves cornices and stands three storeys high at the corner bays, while the right side has two storeys with attics, including a flat-headed dormer.

The corner has one three-storey bay facing High Street and two similar bays on South Street, with the angle bay being curved and featuring a two-storey sunk panel. This bay has brackets supporting a moulded surround, a moulded cornice above, and a doorway below with similar brackets, a curved frieze, and a curved moulded canopy. Full-height pilasters with bases and moulded capitals flank the doorway and the end of the tall block.

The building has a two-to-one window arrangement on both South Street and High Street, consisting of small-paned vertically sliding sash windows with margins. Each shop window has pilasters with bases and brackets that support a frieze and a moulded flat canopy, with a central mullion and upper transom. There are also pierced ventilators. To the right, the three-bay, two-storey range has three small-paned vertically sliding sash windows on the first floor, separated by pilasters with moulded capitals, resting on a central band that terminates at the eaves band.

The moulded eaves cornice is present, and "Bikes and Things" features a 19th-century shop front with a recessed 20th-century door to the left, along with windows that have a central mullion and upper transom, and pierced ventilators. The central 20th-century shop window has a recessed six-light door on the left and a recessed six-panel door on the right. Inside "Bikes and Things," a heavy moulded bridging joist from the 16th century is visible, along with vertically boarded walls and an 18th-century fire surround. This building is likely part of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England record.