146, High Street

No. 146 High Street is a house and shop, likely built in the 1890s. The front is rendered, while the solid right-hand side wall, visible from the alley, is covered with slate-hanging and features a slated mansard roof. The building has three storeys with a garret and is one window wide. It boasts a good shopfront with display windows supported by angle-shafts and decorated brackets. The shop door is recessed in the centre, topped by a shell-carved open pediment. To the right of the shopfront is a panel of blue and white tiles inscribed "W H ANDREW PURVEYOR & FAMILY BUTCHER ESTD. 1855." A deep wooden canopy on shaped brackets extends over the entire ground storey. The second and third storeys feature a wooden canted bay window in the centre, each finished with a bracketed cornice that has quatrefoils between the brackets. The second-storey window has a panelled base, while the third-storey window is topped with a slated pent roof. The sash windows have panels of coloured glass above them, and the upper sashes include glazing bars forming margin-panes. A dentilled top cornice is interrupted by a large two-light dormer window with a flat top, which has sashes with one upright glazing bar per sash. To the right, set back and spanning the alley, is a rendered structure containing a 12-light sash window. The interior has not been inspected. This building is part of a group with Nos. 145 (The Victoria) and No. 147. W H Andrew, the butcher, is listed at this address (then 130 High Street) in Kelly's Directory of Devonshire from 1883 to 1906, but not in 1910.