8A AND 9, GRENVILLE STREET (See details for further address information)

This is a house with a shop, now a cafe, dating from the early to mid 19th century, with shop fronts added in the late 19th or early 20th century. The building has solid rendered walls and a slate roof, gabled towards High Street. Notable features include a large chimney of old red brick near the right-hand end of the ridge, a smaller off-centre chimney, and a rendered chimney at the left-hand end.

The building is three storeys high, with a three-window front to Grenville Street and a two-window return to High Street. The ground floor shop fronts are arranged in five bays, three to Grenville Street, one to High Street, and a splayed corner bay with a cafe entrance. Flanking and separating the bays are Doric pilasters, some of which have small quatrefoil panels. Above the shop fronts is an entablature with a frieze that slopes outwards at the top. Shaped brackets support panelled blocks at either end, and divide the left-hand bay (No. 8A).

No. 8A has display windows with angle-shafts, moulded caps and bases, and patterned iron grills at the tops of the windows. A recessed glazed door is centrally placed, with an entablature, dentilled cornice, and a small triangular pediment above, set on a pavement of chequered black and white tiles. A blind bay with masonry markings is to the right of No. 8A. No. 9 has display windows in each bay flanking the corner entrance, with matching details. The corner entrance has a glazed door with flanking glazed panels and a two-paned fanlight, also on a chequered tile pavement. An office entrance, likely a late 20th-century insertion replacing a window, is to the right of the shop front on the High Street side, alongside masonry markings. Further to the right is the early or mid 19th-century entrance to No. 21A, with reeded pilasters, an entablature, and an eight-panelled door with matching reveals.

The upper storeys have masonry markings, heavily overpainted. Windows have reeded sills and generally barred sashes. Middle-floor sashes to Grenville Street have six panes, while outer sashes have eight. The two right-hand third-floor sashes have horns. Towards High Street, the right-hand windows have eight-paned sashes; those to the left are smaller, with plain sashes and horns. A moulded board runs below the eaves on the Grenville Street front, becoming bargeboards on the High Street gable. The interior has not been inspected.