27, High Street

This is an earlier 17th-century merchant's house, of a “deux corps de batiments” type, which was remodelled in the earlier 19th century. It retains a small, now roofed-in, courtyard with traces of a former gallery and a separate kitchen block. The building is three storeys high and has two windows facing the street. It has a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate, with rendered stacks. The party walls are of limestone rubble, and the east side retains a chamfered corbel on the second floor, marking a jettied construction. The front is timber-framed and slate-hung, with a dentil eaves cornice. The second floor juts out, supported by an ogee-moulded bressumer. The windows are architraved sashes with glazing bars, and those on the first floor have blind hoods. The earlier 19th-century shopfront has a Neo-Classical design with half-round, fluted Greek Doric pilasters, supporting an entablature (now partly blocked out with a modern fascia), with an in-swept frieze and projecting cornice. The shopfront contains modern windows. Internally, the building retains original open fireplaces, most of which are now blocked, and the ovolo mullions of former windows have been reused as partition studs.