17, High Street

17 High Street is a shop and flats that dates from the early 19th century and possibly earlier. The building features a timber-framed structure with rendered and painted Flemish bond brickwork on the front facing High Street. The roof of the front section is hipped and is covered with a mix of slate and plain machine-made clay tiles. There is a parallel rear range and a long range at right angles to the rear, both with plain tile roofs.

The building stands two storeys high and has a complex plan. The front façade includes a pulvinated frieze and four giant Doric pilasters, with one pilaster returning on the northern flank. The central bay is slightly recessed. On the first floor, there are three double-hung sash windows with 12 panes each, while the ground floor features two tripartite double-hung sash windows with small panes in the upper halves. The central doorcase has a moulded cornice, moulded architrave, and panelled reveals, with a rectangular fanlight above the door that has been infilled.

The exposed northern flank, which faces an access way, is made of ashlared render and has a double-hung sash window on each floor, both with moulded surrounds and eight large square panes. At the rear, there is a small two-storey range with a hipped roof, along with two flat-roofed extensions—one single-storey and one two-storey—on the western side. Behind these is a long rear range that runs at right angles, featuring a gabled western end that adjoins a 19th-century rear extension with scalloped pargetting on its northern flank. The building has a large red brick cruciform plan stack over the front range, a smaller rectangular stack adjacent to it, and an additional stack on the long rear range. The interior has not been inspected.