69 High Street

69 High Street is a terraced shop with offices above, built around the mid-18th century and altered in the 20th century. The building is constructed of purple grey bricks, featuring red brick quoins and window dressings, with slate and clay tile roof coverings on the gable ends.

The structure has a rectangular plan and a narrow front elevation facing the High Street, retaining its historic burgage plot width. It stands three storeys high and is two bays wide. The front elevation is faced with purple grey bricks laid in header bond, complemented by red brick window dressings and quoins.

On the ground floor, there is a large shopfront with canted plate glass shop windows and a recessed central entrance that includes a tiled porch. The shop windows feature upper leaded stained-glass clerestory lights. The central doorway has a fielded lower panel and a large glazed upper panel, topped with a transom light. An additional entrance on the eastern side provides access to the offices above, flanked by fielded pilasters on fluted pedestals, and features a six-panelled door beneath a transom light. The pilaster next to the door and another at the west end of the shopfront support fluted console brackets. Between these brackets is a large fascia panel for shop signage, topped with a moulded cornice and decorative ironwork balustrade that includes a circle motif and floral finials.

Above the shopfront at first floor level, there is a centrally placed shallow, flat-roofed oriel window consisting of three sashes: two four-over-four side sashes and a central ten-over-ten sash, all beneath a plain frieze and shallow dentil cornice. At the second floor, there are two eight-over-eight sash windows with flush moulded surrounds.