116-122, WEST STREET

Nos. 116 to 122 West Street comprise a group of buildings dating from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

No. 116 has a three-storey, three-bay facade constructed of red brick with a rendered and capped parapet. A segmental-headed yard entry is located to the left. Windows are set within reveals and feature moulded stuccoed archivolts. The centre window on the first floor has a plain frieze and cornice above it. The front windows on the first floor lack glazing bars, and the ground floor has a modern plate-glass shop front.

No. 117 appears to have a 19th-century facade applied to a likely timber-framed building. It is three storeys high with two bays and a tile-gabled roof. The facade is colour-washed rendered with a parapet and a first-floor band. The square, two-light casement windows have small panes and moulded archivolts. Two curvilinear rainwater heads are present. The ground floor has a modern plate-glass shop front.

No. 118 is constructed from Roman cement and reportedly designed by a local surveyor named Harding in 1840. It is three storeys high with two bays and a tiled gabled roof. Paired eaves brackets are present, along with quoins. The windows are three panes wide within reveals with moulded archivolts; the first-floor windows have segmental pediments over brackets. The ground floor has a modern plate-glass shop front.

Nos. 119 and 120 have 18th-century frontages and two storeys with an attic. They have steeply pitched tile-gabled roofs, a wide modern boxed dormer to the left, and a hipped dormer to the right. An eaves modillion cornice is present. No. 119 is brick, while No. 120 is stuccoed. The first floor has five windows, each three panes wide. The ground floor incorporates modern plate-glass shop fronts flanked by pilasters.

Nos. 121 and 122 originally formed a single property, The George Inn, which was divided in 1865. No. 121 has an early to mid-18th-century frontage, possibly originally to a timber-framed core, with recent extensive alterations behind. It is two storeys high with five irregularly spaced windows and one blocked panel on the first floor. A modillion cornice and a panelled parapet are present. The brick front is topped with a slate roof, hipped to the left. An entry to the former Inn yard is on the left, and the ground floor has a modern plate-glass shop front. No. 122 is three storeys high with two bays and a slate gabled roof. It features paired eaves brackets, a cornice, and colour-washed upper two floors with brick on the ground floor, which appears continuous with No. 121. Quoins and a stringcourse are present. The second-floor windows are segmental headed with moulded archivolts and lack glazing bars. The first floor features two large, three-light bay windows with splayed sides, pilasters, and an entablature. The ground floor has a good-quality 19th-century style plate-glass shop front flanked by a doorway on either side.

These listed buildings, along with Nos. 108 to 122 (consec), form a group with Nos 1 to 9 (consec) (including No 1A), Nos 1 to 6 Town Hall buildings (The Borough), and Nos 1 and 77 Castle Street.