42, High Street

This is an early to mid-18th century building, originally two separate houses at the end of a terrace, now combined with No. 40. The building is constructed of brick, with a partial rubble plinth to the left-hand side and dressed and coursed stone to the right. It has slate roofs and brick stacks. The main front range is accompanied by a long, 19th-century rear extension.

The left-hand part of the building has three storeys and four windows. These windows are 12-pane sashes with brick voussoirs above, the first-floor windows being more splayed than those on the second floor. A half-square, half-canted bay window occupies the left side of the ground floor, complete with a sloping glazed roof supported by two iron brackets. The central doorway has a shallow, flat wooden hood supported on long consoles, leading to a six-panel door with the top two panels glazed and the remainder fielded, accessed by two stone steps. A triple sash bow window sits to the right, featuring a wood dentil cornice and flanking small, leaded, pointed-arch windows with a single light. Evidence of fairly large timber lintels remains on both sides of the ground floor.

The right-hand part of the building has a Cotswold stone slate roof, brick stacks to the left, a moulded stone modillion cornice with a left-hand return, a brick parapet, and pilaster strips. It is two storeys high and includes a basement. Four 12-pane sash windows are present, also with splayed brick voussoirs and moulded wood architraves. The ground floor features two windows similar to those on the left, a central six-panel door (also with fielded panels and top glazing) leading up three large splayed stone steps, and a triple sash bow window with a wood dentil cornice and bull-nosed sill. A curved corner is visible on the ground floor of the rear left-hand return. The group value context acknowledges its contribution to the wider heritage of the area.