65, High Street

No. 65 High Street is a house that has been converted into offices, dating from the late 18th century, with the left rear wing possibly being older. The front and left side walls are made of painted brick on stone ashlar bases, while the rear is rendered. It features a hipped slate roof topped with late 19th-century crested red ridge-tiles. There are chimneys on each gable wall, with the right chimney made of old red brick and the left rendered. The building has a 4-square plan with a central passage leading to a rear stair compartment, and the rear rooms project as short wings; notably, the left rear room is a storey lower than the others, indicating it may be part of an earlier structure.

The house stands three storeys tall with a basement, while the left rear room has two storeys. It has a three-window range, with the outer windows being wider than the central one. The doorway in the middle of the ground storey is reached by a flight of five old stone steps, featuring original patterned iron guard-rails that sweep outwards at the bottom. To the left of the doorway is a shoescraper. The entrance consists of a six-panelled door with a knocker, where the two bottom panels are flush, accompanied by matching panelled reveals and a cobweb fanlight. Fluted Doric pilasters on either side support an entablature with a bracketed cornice. The adjoining windows are canted bays with lean-to slated roofs and six-paned sashes, with entablatures that match the doorcase.

The upper-storey windows have slightly curved brick arches and barred sashes, with six over six panes on the second storey and three over six on the third storey. The outer windows feature side-sashes that are one pane wide, and there is a moulded board below the eaves.

Inside, the entrance passage has a plain dado with a moulded rail and skirting, and the panelled doors have raised moulding on the panels. The open-well wooden staircase has shaped step-ends and thin, scratch-moulded square balusters, with a handrail that ramps up over column-newels and is voluted at the foot of the stair. The left ground-floor front room retains an original wooden chimneypiece with metal ornaments, while the room to the right has a simple white marble chimneypiece. The rear wall features barred sashes, including a tall, round-arched stair window with cobweb glazing in the head.