Herald House

Herald House is a house with a shop, built around 1830. It features red brick in Flemish bond, with a rendered ground floor and Ham stone dressings. The roof is made of Ludlow pattern concrete tiles with plain gables, and there is a brick chimney stack at one end. The building stands three storeys high and has two bays.

The exterior includes rusticated end pilasters, a band course, and a rusticated rendered base. The lower bay has a plain four-pane sash window, followed by a 19th-century shopfront that features a display window with three elliptical-arched lights and matching fanlights above the doors on either side. Tuscan-style flanking pilasters and a simple fascia complete the shopfront. Above this, there are 16-pane sash windows on the first floor and 12-pane sash windows on the second floor, all set in simple openings with rubbed brick flat arches.

Attached to the north side is a single-storey painted brick extension with a flat roof, likely built in the early 20th century. This extension has a blind semi-circular arch to the left and an open segmental arch to the right, both with plain painted stone surrounds, impost blocks, and keystones. Between these arches is a three-light stone surround and a plain nullioned window with a moulded hood, situated under a string course and a plain coped parapet. The interiors have not been seen. Herald House is an important element in the continuous streetscape of the town centre.