43 High Street

43 High Street is a late 18th-century building that stands four storeys tall, featuring a later shopfront on the ground floor.

The front (north) elevation and the top of the east elevation are faced with grey bricks arranged in header bond, complemented by red brick dressings and quoins. The hipped roof is covered with slates. The building has a rectangular plan, with its shorter side facing the High Street, maintaining the historic burgage plot form typical of the area. It is attached to the neighbouring buildings on both sides, with the east elevation slightly rising above the party wall.

The exterior is two bays wide and fronts directly onto the pavement. The ground floor features a 20th-century shopfront. On the first and second floors, there are central, shallow-bowed oriel windows, each with a tripartite sash window configuration (five-over-five panes in the centre and two-over-two panes on each side). Notably, the upper-right pane of the first-floor window has been replaced by an extractor fan. The sashes have flush, reeded frames that support a moulded entablature, which includes a plain frieze and a projecting modillion and dentil cornice, held up by decorative corbels at either end. Two red brick string courses run across the elevation at the cornice level of each oriel window, and there is a plain apron between the first and second floor windows. The third floor features a pair of two-over-two sash windows set in recessed and flush moulded architraves. The building is topped with a hipped slate roof and a timber eaves cornice.