23, High Street

This is a house, later used as a surgery, with rear sections dating to the early 18th century and a front facade from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of brick, with a rendered gable to the front and a buff brick front. It is three storeys and has a cellar, facing north onto the High Street. The rear range steps down in height along the west side of the plot. The front features a low stucco plinth, a painted stone string course serving as a sill to the first-floor windows, and a parapet with a deep, corbelled band beneath a stone coping. A band of projecting bricks is present; pairs above the jambs of the four second-floor windows and single bricks at each front corner. The recessed sash windows have flat, gauged arches, plastered reveals, and 6/6 panes on the ground and first floors, with 3/3 panes in the square windows on the second floor. A wide, round-arched doorway sits beneath the second window from the right, topped with a lobed fanlight above a six-panel door with side panels and a stone step. A fine, two-storey, triple-sashed bow window is located at the rear. A two-storey and attic rear wing features a fine moulded brick cornice and an early 18th century Venetian sash window with broad glazing bars. A further early 18th century six-panel door has carved consoles to a moulded hood. A 3-light 18th century plate casement window is found in a 1½-storey section of the rear wing. The house was used by the Rothschilds as a centre for medical services for their estate.