54, High Street

This is a house, now a shop, with a rear wing dating back to the 17th century and a front section built around 1830-1850. Later 19th-century alterations and additions have been made, including a shop front. The front part of the building is stuccoed over brick, while the rear wing is timber-framed with external plastering and a steeply-pitched slate roof.

The front section is three storeys high and has irregular 6/6 sash windows. The front facade features a shop front with turned mullions and console brackets. Timber framing is visible on the left-hand return and rear. Casement windows are present. On the left-hand return, a wall post at the angle with the front range has a mortise for a mid-rail and a sawn-off wall-plate.

The interior retains the frame of square panels and plain windbraces to a double-purlin roof. A mid-17th century door, altered over time, leads from the ground floor to the cellar. A single ground floor beam exhibits a wide, stopped chamfer.

The 1883 list notes that the rear wing, when considered alongside numbers 57 and 331 High Street, represents the most significant surviving domestic building from before the Regency period within the early town boundaries.