The Bass Centre

The Bass Centre is a Grade II listed building located on the southeast side of High Street. It is a timber-framed structure dating from the late 15th century, 16th century, and 17th century, with a painted brick front added in the 18th century. The building has two storeys and an attic.

On the ground floor, No 42 likely features a late 18th-century shop front with a moulded frame and modern glazing, topped by a continuous cornice above a side doorway. The corner shop to the right is Victorian and has a modern fascia. The first floor has three 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars; the left-hand window includes margin lights and replaces three previously blocked segmental-arched openings. A moulded wood eaves cornice runs along the top.

There is one hipped dormer in the steep-pitched tile roof of the earlier building, which has a tile-hung gable end. The right-hand return wing facing Courthouse Street is stuccoed and also two storeys high. Its first floor overhangs, supported by close-set studding, a moulded bressumer, and a shaped end bracket. It features a five-light first-floor casement window with glazing bars, while the ground floor has one modern casement window and a glazed door. The building retains remnants of a late 15th-century roof of the central purlin type.

All the listed buildings on High Street up to and including No 118 are part of a group.