2, High Street

No. 2 High Street is a house in a row, dating from the early 18th century. It features Flemish bond brickwork and has tile and felt roofs. The main front block is connected to a square four-storey block by an inset unit, all of which is from the 18th century. There is a later brick addition at the back, linked by a late 20th-century glazed passageway.

The front of the building is three storeys high with three windows. The second floor has wide nine-pane sash windows, while the first floor has twelve-pane sash windows on either side. The centre of the second floor features a blind oculus with keystones at the cardinal points, and the first floor has an arched sash window with an early 19th-century interlaced head. All windows are set into the wall face and are topped with rubbed brick voussoirs, central fluted keystones with a cornice, and stone cills.

On the ground floor, there is a symmetrical four-pane 19th-century shop front with pilasters and a fascia that has a moulded cornice supported by bold consoles. The central recessed glazed door is topped by a square transom light. Inside the glass at the set-back, there are two slender cast-iron columns with a quatrefoil plan. Above this, a stone modillion cornice leads to a rendered parapet with a segmental raised centre.

The back of the main building has a coped parapet over small early 18th-century twelve-pane sashes and a 20th-century light with segmental heads, along with a slated lean-to addition at the ground floor. A four-storey rear block in brick has a felted flat roof and is divided into two bays, featuring twelve-pane sashes on the second and third floors above a fine Palladian window with a Gibbsian arch, pilasters, and an open moulded pediment over three twelve-pane sashes. The lowest floor has a wide four-pane 20th-century light. The flank walls are rendered, and an external steel stair provides access to the link block, which has a flat felted roof and rendered wall. At the eaves level, there is a tripartite twelve-pane sash with wide mullion boxes (though the first sash has been modified), above a paired sash of the same style, linked with a flush door under a moulded cornice. Below this is 20th-century infill. The interior has not been inspected. A photograph from around 1900 in the Museum shows the parapet adorned with three large urns and featuring saddle-back coping.