R And M White And Welcome House

A late 19th-century building comprising houses and commercial premises on a street frontage. The construction uses good, regularly coursed and squared limestone with alternating rusticated quoins, plinth and cill bands. It features a Welsh slate roof. This is a large-scale structure relative to other buildings in the town, with long, projecting rear wings. The street frontage is three storeys high, with a three-window central section and a two-window section to the right. The ground floor features a two-light plate glass display window with a slender central shaft and a moulded head, now modified. A double-panelled door sits above a plinth with deep consoles supporting a flat-stone hood with a moulded edge; the overlight has a basket-handle arch. A two-storey canted bay with plate glass windows appears to the right of centre, followed by a plate glass sash with a moulded surround and basket-handle head. Further right there's a door with three panels over three, under an overlight, within a richly detailed surround with a hood. The first floor has four-pane sashes, with a central canted bay. The second floor has five small four-pane sashes, all within moulded surrounds and basket-handle heads, set on wide stone cills with brackets. A deep brick stack is located on the left, with a cropped rendered stack to the left of Halfway House. There's an eaves cornice, a plain string to the second floor, and a moulded string to the first. The rear of the building has various multi-pane sashes, a round-arched doorway, and is likely older than the street frontage. A rear wing to the right is six bays wide. Main roofs have coped gables. The building is described as a vigorous scheme, possibly over-scaled for its prominent location.