5-17, HIGH STREET

This is an 18th-century building on the south side of High Street in Warminster, originally forming several flats. It is three storeys high with a basement. The front is constructed of coursed rubble stone with rusticated ashlar quoins. A band runs across the front at ground floor level, and a plain string is present at the second floor. A small moulded eaves cornice sits above, and the roof is covered in old tiles. The upper floors have plate glass sash windows arranged in five ranges, each framed with architraves and painted moulded sills. Two modern shop windows are now located on the ground floor. A later central entrance features a six-panel door set within a Doric stone surround topped with a pediment, with curved wrought iron lampholders. Footscrapers are recessed into the wall on both sides. A basement opening is visible on the right, originally containing a two-light mullion window.

Long rubble extensions to the rear, built in three stages, create an alleyway and connect to the rear extensions of numbers 21 to 29. These extensions contain approximately 1700-style two-light mullion windows; the first section has two on the first floor and one on the ground floor, while the second has three on the ground floor (the first floor now has modern casements) with stone drips. A yard at the rear contains a small 18th-century cottage, now number 17, with half-hipped gables and hipped dormers to the east.