53, High Street

This is a mid-19th century house, originally with a shop. It is rendered with stone dressings and has a clay pantiled roof with coped gables and brick chimney stacks. The building is three storeys high and has three bays. The exterior features a moulded cornice, a blocking course, and a plain parapet. A late 20th-century shop front occupies the ground floor, with the central portion recessed and supported by two circular street columns. The first and second floors have plain sash windows in moulded architraves and stone sills. A modern projecting sign is located at first-floor level.

The return elevation to Mill Street shows one gable rendered and with a stack, and a second gable constructed of roughly squared local stone. At ground floor level are two blocked former openings. Above are sash windows with timber architraves; a 16-pane and a 4-pane window are on the first floor, and two 12-pane windows on the second.

The ground floor interior has been modified. The first floor retains 18th-century doors to the front section alongside mid-19th century doors to the rear. A simple early 19th-century staircase features turned newels and stick balusters. The second floor retains most original partitions, though with late 19th-century doors and an early 20th-century fireplace in the west room.