18-22, HIGH STREET

Nos 18 to 22 on High Street are two houses that have been converted into shops, dating from the early to mid 18th century. No 18 is an early 18th-century building made of rubble stone with a stone-tiled roof, featuring coped gables and end-wall stacks. It has a projecting gable facing the street, with windows set in raised moulded surrounds. The attic has a 20th-century light within the original surround, while the first floor has original thick glazing-bar 12-pane sash windows with dripstones. The ground floor has been entirely altered in the 20th century. The rear east gable includes a leaded attic light and a bead-moulded first-floor light, along with a slate-roofed wing that has a moulded doorcase and dripstone on the south side.

Nos 20 and 22 are an early to mid 18th-century formal range with an ashlar front and a stone-tiled roof, featuring a coped north gable, a stack at the north end, and a ridge stack at the original south end. This two-storey building with an attic was originally a five-window range, later extended to six in a matching style, and includes two hipped dormers. The left end has quoins and a fragment of a first-floor band, with a moulded cornice and parapet. The first floor has six 12-pane sash windows in architraves with moulded sills and fielded apron panels, evenly spaced. The ground floor of No 20 has been fully altered in the 20th century. No 22 features an original 8-panel door in a moulded architrave, with steps leading up flanked by low ashlar walls, and a 19th-century eighteen-pane shop window to the left with thin panelled pilasters on either side of the door, topped with a 19th-century fascia. The rear elevation is three stories high, made of rubble stone with bands and a parapet, originally displaying a three-window range of flush cyma-moulded mullion windows, with the center window now blank. The first floor has a blocked three-light window to the left, a paired center window, one blank window, and a 15-pane window along with a pair of 12-pane sashes to the right. The ground floor on the left is from the 20th century, featuring a central six-panel door with an overlight and a hood on brackets, with a 19th-century bay to the right.