143 High Street

Former terraced shop, now offices. Built in around the late C18 with alterations in about the mid-C20.

MATERIALS: faced in purple-grey brick with red brick dressings. Slate roof coverings.

PLAN: a rectangular plan three-storey terraced building with a shopfront to the ground floor and offices above.

EXTERIOR: 143 High Street is three storeys high and three bays wide, fronting directly onto the High Street. It is faced in purple-grey bricks, laid in header bond, with red brick window dressings, flat arch lintels above the windows and decorative brick quoins. The ground floor is occupied by a shopfront which is of three bays separated by fluted Doric pilasters; the western two bays each have glazed double doors flanked by plate glass shop windows whilst the eastern bay has a tiled porch leading to a six-panelled door giving additional access to the offices above. A fascia panel carrying the shop signage runs across the top of the ground floor frontage. At first floor level there are two rectangular timber oriel windows flanking a central, narrow blind (blocked) window opening with a stone cill. The side faces of the two oriel windows contain two-over-two sashes whilst the front face consists of a pair of six-over-six sashes. The sashes are separated by plain strips and bounded by a panelled apron, plain frieze and cornice. There are three recessed sash windows with stone cills to the second floor. Those in the first and third bay are eight-over-eight sashes whilst the central bay has a six-over-six sash. Above the second-floor is a wooden eaves cornice. 143 High Street has a gabled roof covered in slates with two brick chimney stacks at each end. The west gable end has a C19 painted shop sign: 'SELF pastry cook. THE NOTED PIE SHOP'.