26 And 27, High Street

26 and 27 High Street is a house with a later shop on the ground floor, dating from around the 1860s. The rear block, which is attached to Nos 1 and 2 Butchers' Row, may be older and contemporary with Butchers' Row. The building is finished in stucco and features slate roofs, with the rear block having a flat roof. The rear stack has a brick shaft and a yellow chimney pot topped with scalloped cresting.

Situated on an important corner site between High Street and Butchers' Row, the building has a canted corner. It is designed in a T-plan layout with a rear centre wing and a block behind Butchers' Row, forming an angle between the rear wing and the main block. The structure stands three storeys tall, with a 1:3-window arrangement facing High Street and a 2:4-window arrangement on Butchers' Row.

Notable architectural features include a deep projecting eaves cornice supported by moulded brackets, an eaves band, and a platband at the second-floor cill level. The windows are adorned with moulded architraves, and the second-floor windows have moulded cill blocks. The shop front boasts a dentil cornice and plate-glass windows flanked by panelled pilasters, with a 20th-century shopfront to the right.

The first-floor windows are primarily glazed with 2 over 2-pane sashes featuring margin panes, except for the left-hand bay, which has a tripartite sash with a more elaborate architrave and a floating cornice on consoles, topped with a semicircular pediment over the centre. The first-floor windows are one over one-pane sashes with margin panes, except for the left bay, which is tripartite. The canted corner and the four bays of the Butchers' Row elevation display similar details and window styles. To the left, there is a slightly set-back block with a two-bay front to Butchers' Row, which includes a second-floor platband and similar windows, with the first-floor windows featuring keyblocks. The interior has not been inspected.