17, High Street

No. 17 High Street is a house in a row, featuring an early 19th-century front that incorporates 17th-century timber-framed elements. The building is constructed of Flemish bond brickwork and has a felted roof. It has a side-entry right-angle plan and stands three storeys tall with a wide two-window layout. The large 16-pane sash windows are set within fine brick arches that have fluted keystones and stone cills.

On the ground floor, there is a late 19th-century shop front with pilasters and two large panes of glass, divided by slender unmoulded mullions, topped with flat basket-handle heads. To the left, there is a recessed glazed door with a transom light featuring rounded corners. Adjacent to this, leading to a throughway, is a wide framed door with four sunk panels above a fifth panel that has cross-bracing, topped with a shallow four-pane transom light.

A shallow fascia below a moulded cornice is adorned with decorative cast-iron cresting that spans the full width of the front. The stone modillion cornice is positioned just below a felt drip from the roof. The right-hand side of the building is rendered and designed as part of the Town Hall. Inside the throughway, there is timber-framing visible on the right, and approximately 2 meters from the front, a broad chamfered and stopped beam is supported on a bracket. The interior has not been inspected.