73 High Street

Terraced shop with flats above. Built in about the early C19.

MATERIALS: constructed of brick which is rendered to the front elevation. The gable ends have hung slate and there is a clay tile roof and red brick chimney with red clay chimney pots.

PLAN: rectangular in plan with a narrower front elevation onto the High Street. As with most other historic plots along the High Street, 73 High Street appears to retain its historic, burgage plot width.

EXTERIOR: 73 High Street is three storeys high and two bays wide. The ground floor has a shopfront formed of stallrisers faced with faux quarry-faced stone, and two curved shopfront windows, each split into sixteen lights. The upper lights of each window are further subdivided into three leaded windows with mottled and bullseye glazing. There is a central recessed porch and eight-pane glazed door beneath a transom light. Above the shopfront is a fascia panel with modern signage and a shallow, projecting box hood. Immediately to the east of the shopfront is an entrance to the flats above. This has a six-panelled timber door and transom light flanked by Doric pilasters. Running across the top of the ground floor is a plain freeze and cornice. At first floor level there are two recessed eight-over-eight sash windows without sash horns. Whilst to the second floor there are two recessed four-over-eight sash windows without sash horns and a wooden eaves cornice.