2 And 4, High Street

HAVERHILL

TL6745 HIGH STREET 816-1/5/15 (South West side) 09/05/73 Nos.2 AND 4

GV II

Corn Exchange, now offices. 1857, converted to commercial use after 1889, to shops and offices in C20. Red brick with gault brick dressings; slate roof and gable end brick stack. EXTERIOR: 2-storey, 3-bay gabled front to street; to left, a lower 2-storey 3-bay extension. Gabled front has false external stack with weathering in the centre: on the ground floor are three round-arched casement windows with radial-glazing in the head, centre one piercing chimney stack. On the first floor are two 4/4 unhorned sashes. Right return 4 bays, with casements to ground floor, two 4/4 unhorned sashes to first floor. Extension to left articulated on ground floor by Doric pilasters carrying meagre entablature and framing C20 plate-glass display windows. On the first floor are two tripartite horned sashes under cambered gauged skewback arches. Modillion eaves cornice and small central pediment inscribed Corn Exchange. INTERIOR: not inspected

Listing NGR: TL6718445491