117 High Street

House with a ground-floor shop; early C19, now a commercial premises with flat above. Additions were made in the later C19, and the shop front installed in the 1930s. The building was restored in 1994.

MATERIALS: painted brick in Flemish bond with a concealed Welsh slate roof. There is a rendered end chimney stack to the right-hand side. The rear wing is built from Flemish bond brick with grey headers, subsequently extended in a pale and bluish brick in irregular Flemish bond.

PLAN: double-depth plan with a contemporary rear wing, further extended in two builds.

EXTERIOR: three storeys high and of one bay. The 1930s shop front has a recessed central doorway flanked by bowed windows on a polished, veined, black stone plinth. The door has a large glazed panel with glazing bars forming a central diamond. In front of the door is a tessellated pavement with the name of the former proprietors (Bright and Son) and the soffit of the recess is panelled with a raised central diamond. The overlights to the door and windows have narrow, green glass bands to the top and bottom, and the glazing bars between form a diamond pattern. The shop front has panelled pilasters with tripartite, pendant motifs towards the top and fixed iron supports to the shop awning. Above the awning box, the fascia has a raised and moulded wooden border rising in two breaks at the centre. The first-floor window is a horned sash, and the second floor has a twelve-pane, two-light casement. Both have gauged brick heads. There is a cornice below the flat-coped parapet.

The rear wing is a one-window range, with segmental-arched window openings including a glazing bar sash to the first floor. The later extension, which is wider, has camber arched brick window surrounds with three sashes with glazing bars to the first floor; the window to the centre has been inserted under a timber lintel, and a similar smaller window to the right on the second floor. A further C19 extension has been replaced in the mid- and late C20.

INTERIOR: reported to have retained some early-C19 features.