114 High Street and 18 St James’s Street

Townhouse with shop, built in the early C19, with a mid-C19 shopfront.

MATERIALS: the building is constructed of brick laid in a checker pattern, with red brick dressings including window surrounds and quoins. It is topped by a hipped slate roof

PLAN: a roughly rectangular building on a corner plot with the south and west elevations facing High Street and St James's Street respectively.

EXTERIOR: the building is three storeys. The ground floor includes a mid-C19 shopfront with a rectangular box window on each side, consisting of a narrow box window on the canted corner (late-C20 replacement), and two large box windows to the south and west. Each window is flanked by Doric pilasters supporting a frieze and cornice. Also, on the west elevation is a ground-floor sash window with glazing bars to the upper sash.

On the first floor, the south elevation includes a rectangular bay window consisting of four lights; two six-over-six sashes to the front, and two-over-two sashes in the returns. The sashes are divided by plain strips, there is a panelled apron, and the bay is topped by a plain frieze, and shallow projecting moulded cornice. There are also two windows on the west elevation, one a shallow recess and the other a six-over-six sash.

On the second floor there is a three-over-six sash to the south, and to the west is a matching sash and a further shallow recess. The windows are all in recessed openings and topped by splayed-brick flat arches; the top floor arches are narrower. Below the hipped roof is a timber-eaves cornice.