122 and 123 High Street

Townhouse with shop, built in the early C19 most likely as one building, subdivided by the mid-C19, recombined by the mid-C20, with an early-C21 shopfront.

MATERIALS: the first and second floor of the front (south) elevation facing the High Street are faced with painted brick. The pitched roof over the front range of the building is covered by slate. The visible upper part of the east gable return is rendered.

PLAN: the building has a long rectangular footprint, orientated south to north, with a narrow front elevation facing south onto the High Street.

EXTERIOR: the front (south) range has three storeys plus attic. The entirety of the south elevation’s ground floor is occupied by a shopfront, replaced in 2009. On the first floor are two, curved oriel windows. Each oriel contains curved sashes; a six-over-six central sash flanked by four- over-four sashes. The sashes are separated by moulded strips; below is a deep plain apron and above is a plain frieze with dentil cornice. On the second floor are three eight-over-eight sashes with block cills. Above the second-floor windows is a timber fascia. This front range of the building is topped by a pitched roof covered in slates. Two dormers are located halfway down the front slope of the roof (facing the High Street). These have flat roofs and their front face is a six-pane window.