5 and 7 High Street

MATERIAL: brick, with the front façade of the building stuccoed. The 2012 shopfront and signboard are of timber.

PLAN: the building is roughly square on plan and faces onto High Street to its east.

EXTERIOR: the building is of three storeys under a pitched slate roof. The principal eastern elevation at first and second floor level is arranged in two bays. At first floor level, the northern window is a timber oriel window with a two-over-two sash, while the southern window is a two-over-two sash. Between these two windows is a three-faced clock, which projects from the façade on a metal bracket. The second-floor windows are both two-over-two sashes. This façade has rendered quoins, probably of stucco. The shopfront has timber reeded pilasters in imitation of a historic shopfront. The year 1909 marked on the shopfront refers to the date that AA Thornton was founded, at separate premises on Market Street.

The rear elevation is a dressed limestone wall, with scars of previous openings which have now been filled. To the south is a small redbrick monopitch extension of C19 date.

INTERIOR: it is understood that some historic features survive in the interiors of the upper rooms, including reed and plaster ceilings and a plank door likely to date to the early C19.

Listing NGR: SP8663678530