27, High Street

No. 27 High Street is a shop with accommodation above, dating from the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of yellow brick, featuring minor dressings of stone and red brick, with bands of patterned red tiles between the upper storeys. The left side wall is slate hung, and there is a red brick chimney at the top, also slate hung on the left side. The roof is not visible from the street. The building stands four storeys high and is four windows wide, with paired windows. The ground storey has a mid-20th century metal-framed shopfront with a tiled fascia. The upper storey windows are round-arched, featuring keystones and continued imposts made of projecting brick courses, with plain sashes. There is a bracketed top cornice and a blocking-course, with red brick panels between the brackets. The interior of the ground floor has been completely altered. This building is part of a notable group with Nos. 26 and 28-32, which represent later 19th century commercial architecture of a remarkably ambitious scale for a town of this size.