51, High Street

No. 51 High Street is a building that likely dates from the 1890s, featuring shops on the ground floor with living accommodation above. The structure has solid, rendered walls and wooden bay windows at the front. It has an asbestos slated roof with red ridge tiles and a red brick chimney on the left side wall. The building is four storeys high and three windows wide. The ground floor has late 20th-century shopfronts that lack architectural interest. The upper storeys feature canted bay windows at either end, which rise above the eaves level to a hipped roof. In the center, there are plain windows with hood moulds. All windows, except for the middle one on the second storey, have sashes, with the upper sashes containing margin panes. The bay windows have crenellated transoms and transom lights with coloured glass. There are bracketed cornices between the storeys, with the spaces between the brackets filled with quatrefoil panels. A prominent eaves cornice runs around the bay windows, which are topped with ornate iron finials. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value.