94, High Street

This is an early 18th-century house, which was remodelled externally in the mid-19th century and extended at the rear in the late 20th century. It now functions as a shop with offices above. The front of the building is rendered, and the roof is not visible from the street. The first floor has a width of two rooms and a depth of one, with a central chimney. A rear passage is accessed from the street via a late 20th-century staircase. An 18th-century stair compartment is located behind the right-hand room.

The building is three storeys high and has a four-window front. A late 20th-century shop front and a six-panelled house door are in the ground storey. The upper-floor windows have eared architraves, the second storey having friezes and cornices, and the third storey featuring bracketed cills; all have plain sashes. A 20th-century “eaves cornice” of stepped boards runs along the top of the building.

The interior of the first floor was the only area inspected. The second floor was previously viewed in the 1970s and was noted to have no features of interest. The right-hand first-floor room contains raised and fielded panels with a single fillet and an ovolo moulding. The room has a plain dado with a moulded rail and skirting, which was probably truncated due to the raising of the ground storey. There is a boxed cornice. Matching six-panelled doors, with moulded architraves and panelled reveals, are at either end of the rear wall. Panelled shutters and a window seat complement these doors. The original ceiling contains bolection-moulded ribs with a round centre panel and four shaped spandrel panels. A late 18th-century wooden chimneypiece features panelled pilasters and an entablature, decorated with festoons, female draped figures (one holding scales, the other a lion), and a central oval flanked by festoons. A mid-19th-century cast-iron grate, with a round-arched enriched surround turning outwards at the bottom (the basket grate is missing), is set within the chimneypiece.

An early 18th-century wooden staircase with carved step-ends, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail (ramped up over a column-newel at the top) rises to the second floor. The first-floor landing has a boxed cornice and a window with six-paned sashes.