88 High Street

Terraced shop. Built in about the C18. Altered around the late C20 when the ground floor shopfront was replaced.

MATERIALS: red brick laid in Flemish bond with a timber first-floor oriel window and slate-covered roofs.

PLAN: a mid-terrace shop with a narrow street frontage and long rectangular plan indicative of its historic burgage plot form.

EXTERIOR: 88 High Street is three storeys high and a single bay wide. The front (north) elevation facing the high street is faced in red brick laid in Flemish bond. The ground floor has a shopfront dating to about the late C20. It has a large plate glass shop window and a glazed doorway with a transom light beneath a fascia sign. On the first floor is an original timber bowed oriel window with a central curved six-over-six sash flanked by fielded pilasters and two curved six-over-six sashes. A panelled apron runs beneath the sashes whilst above them there is a plain frieze and dentil cornice. The second floor has a large segmental-headed tripartite sash window comprising a central eight-over-eight sash flanked by two-over-two side sashes. Above the window is a brick dentil cornice and a brick parapet with a further dentil cornice.

The rear (south) elevation has C20 single-storey flat-roofed brick extensions to the ground floor, a flush doorway and two small windows to the first floor, and a two-over-two square-headed sash window to the second floor. The building has a double-pile hipped roof with red tile coverings.

INTERIOR: the ground floor has a modern shop interior whilst the upper floors serve as office and storage space. On the first floor there is an original C18 decorative plaster ceiling with an Adam-style floral and acanthus leaf ceiling rose, Vitruvian scroll and leaf borders, and a moulded cornice. There is also a moulded dado rail and skirting.