99 AND 100, HIGH STREET

99 and 100 High Street is a shop with accommodation above, currently used as two shops and offices. It is likely a late 18th century or early 19th century rebuild of an earlier house. The building is roughcast with a slate roof and features a left end stack with a rendered shaft that has bands, as well as a right end stack. The plan is double depth, two rooms wide, with a passage entrance to the left of center. A stair rises against the rear wall of the right-hand front room.

The exterior has three storeys and a three-bay front that is symmetrical above the ground floor. It has deep eaves with moulded eaves brackets and a moulded eaves fascia board. There are three ground floor and three first floor windows, which are probably early 19th century 16-pane sashes with plain stucco architraves. To the left of center, there is a good doorcase with applied pilasters, an entablature featuring a mutule frieze, and a dentil frieze below the cornice. The door has panelled reveals and is a panelled door. To the right, the shop window has similar applied pilasters, a fascia, and cornice, with a plate glass window. There is a smaller, later shop window to the left with plain pilasters and an entablature, featuring a high transomed window with small panes above the transom.

The interior has been altered for shop use but retains early 19th century joinery and a stick baluster stair with a mahogany handrail. There is encaustic tiling from around the 1860s in the entrance passage. The owner has reported evidence of the former two-storey roofline noticed during building work. This attractive town house features a good shop front and door and is part of a group with the Congregational Chapel and Manse to the left.