68, High Street

No. 68 High Street is part of a terrace of six houses, built in 1887. The house is constructed from cut and squared ham stone, with ashlar dressings, and features plain clay tiles with moulded ridges between coped gables, along with a brick chimney stack. It is two stories high and has two bays, with the left-hand bay projecting. The windows are chamfered mullioned with original casements, featuring two lights below and three lights above in the projecting bay. The gable above this bay is not coped but overhangs and has decorated bargeboards. In the second bay, there is a four-centre moulded arched doorway with matching small sidelights, above a panel of fish-scale tiles that includes a casement window. This window is a handed version, though not an exact copy, of the one at No. 66 to the east. The interior has not been seen. This house is notably well detailed, showcasing a deliberate 'spoiled symmetry' in the style of Norman Shaw, and it is an early example of the design that would influence the early 'Garden City' houses, remaining largely unchanged.