43 High Street

A late-C18 building of four storeys, with a later shopfront to the ground floor.

MATERIALS: the front (north) elevation and the top of the east elevation are faced with grey bricks laid in header bond, with red brick dressings and quoins, and the hipped roof is covered with slates.

PLAN: the building is rectangular in plan with the shorter side fronting the High Street. As with most other historic plots along the street, the historic burgage plot form is retained. 43 High Street abuts the neighbouring buildings to either side; the east side elevation rising slightly above the party wall.

EXTERIOR: the building is four storeys high, two bays wide, and fronts directly onto the pavement. The ground floor has a C20 shopfront. The first and second floors each have a central, shallow-bowed, oriel window with a tripartite sash window (five-over-five panes to the centre; two-over-two to each side). The upper-right pane of the first-floor window has been replaced by an extractor fan. The sashes have flush, reeded frames supporting a moulded entablature with a plain frieze and a projecting modillion and dentil cornice, carried on decorative corbels at either end. Two red brick string courses span the elevation at the cornice level of each oriel window. Between the first and second floor windows is a plain apron. The third floor has a pair of two-over-two sash windows in recessed and flush moulded architraves. The building has a hipped, slate roof and a timber eaves cornice.