42 and 42A High Street

An early-C19 building of three storeys, with a shop at ground-floor level.

MATERIALS: the front (north) elevation is faced with grey bricks laid in header bond with red brick dressings and quoins to the joints with the adjacent buildings. The east party wall rises slightly above the neighbouring 41 High Street and the exposed part of this wall is rendered. The roof is covered with slates.

PLAN: the building is roughly square in plan, fronting directly on to the High Street. The long, narrow rear of the plot has been developed with a later extension. As with most other historic plots along the High Street, the historic burgage plot form is retained.

EXTERIOR: 42 High Street is three storeys high, four bays wide and fronts directly onto the pavement. The ground floor of the street elevation has a late C20 shopfront. The first and second floors are faced with grey brick with window dressings of red brick. Each of the upper floors has four, recessed sash windows with block cills and flat arches of red brick. The first-floor windows are three-over-six sashes but the central pair have lost the glazing bars to the lower sashes. The second-floor windows are square three-over-three sashes. A plain plat band separates the first and second floors, intersected on the eastern half by three circular patress plates. The building has a shallow, dual-pitched roof with a gable end to the east elevation, and a boxy, timber eaves cornice to the front elevation. A small, modern window is partially visible in the eastern gable end above the roof line of 41 High Street.