42 and 42A High Street

42 and 42A High Street is an early 19th-century building that stands three storeys tall and features a shop at ground-floor level.

The front elevation is made of grey bricks laid in header bond, accented with red brick dressings and quoins at the joints with the adjacent buildings. The east party wall extends slightly above the neighbouring 41 High Street and is rendered on the exposed section. The roof is covered with slates.

The building has a roughly square plan and faces directly onto the High Street. The long, narrow rear of the plot has been developed with a later extension, while the historic burgage plot form is retained, similar to other historic plots along the High Street.

The exterior of 42 High Street is four bays wide and features a late 20th-century shopfront on the ground floor. The first and second floors are faced with grey brick, with red brick window dressings. Each upper floor has four recessed sash windows with block cills and flat arches of red brick. The first-floor windows are three-over-six sashes, although the central pair has lost the glazing bars on the lower sashes. The second-floor windows are square three-over-three sashes. A plain plat band separates the first and second floors, with three circular patress plates on the eastern half. The building has a shallow, dual-pitched roof with a gable end on the east elevation and a boxy timber eaves cornice on the front. A small, modern window is partially visible in the eastern gable end above the roof line of 41 High Street.