48 and 50, Higher Street

48 and 50 Higher Street are a mirrored pair of houses built in the mid-19th century. They feature solid rendered walls and a slated roof that is hipped at the front and gabled at the rear, with rendered chimneys on each side wall. Each house is probably one room wide and two rooms deep, and they stand three storeys tall.

Both houses have one window per storey, located at the outer ends of the front facade, with adjacent round-arched doorways in the centre. These doorways have late 20th-century wooden doors and original linked semicircular hoodmoulds. At No. 48, there are late 20th-century small-paned wooden windows, with the ground-storey window designed as an inset bow. No. 50 features a late 19th-century canted bay window in the ground storey, with sash windows, the middle one having a single upright glazing-bar. The second storey has a plain sash window, while the third storey has a barred sash window with 8 over 8 panes.

A moulded cornice runs above the entire ground storey, and there is a deep, flat eaves-cornice. The right side wall, facing Higher Steps, has a barred box-framed sash window in each of the two lower storeys, with 6 over 6 panes in the ground storey and 8 over 8 panes above. The ground-storey window includes hinges for external shutters.