46 and 47 High Street

Terraced shops with flats above. Built in around the early C19.

MATERIALS: built of purple grey brick with red brick dressings and clay roof tiled roof coverings.

PLAN: 46 and 47 High Street are mid-terrace properties that have narrow street frontages and a long rectangular plan. As with most other historic plots along the High Street, they thus retain their historic, burgage plot form.

EXTERIOR: 46 and 47 are each three storeys high and two bays wide. The front (north) elevation, facing the High Street, is faced with purple grey brick laid in header bond with red brick window dressings and quoins. The ground floors each have timber shopfronts with plain pilasters, plate glass windows and large fascias; there is a single glazed doorway to 46 High Street and two glazed doorways to 47 High Street. At first floor level, 46 High Street has a central, bowed, oriel window with a central six-over-six sash flanked by fielded pilasters and two curved four-over-four sashes under a frieze and modillion cornice. A broken, three-brick, plat band runs across the elevations of 46 and 47 High Street at the level of the cornice of the two oriel windows. At second floor level, 46 High Street has two windows; a two-over-two sash and a casement that have moulded, flush wooden frames. There is a horizontal metal rail connected to the brickwork either side of this pair of windows and anchored by vertical members attached to the top of the oriel window at first floor level. 47 High Street has a pair of recessed, two-over-two sash windows with moulded, flush, wooden frames.