70, High Street

No. 70 is one of a terrace of six houses dating to 1887. The construction is stone, with ashlar dressings, and features a plain clay tile roof with moulded ridges and coped gables. A brick chimney stack is also present. The house is two storeys high, with two wide bays, the left-hand bay projecting and gabled. The prominent window on the first floor has a large 4-centred arch with Gothic-style tracery, supported by a string course. Above this is a labelled narrow 4-light window, from which the mullions have been removed and a 20th-century casement window has been inserted. An obelisk finial adorns the gable. The second bay has a 4-centred arched recess for a boarded door, and a 20th-century casement window replacing a former 3-light mullioned window. A panel of fish-scale tiles is above the door, incorporating a casement window. The interior has not been inspected. The terrace exhibits remarkably well-detailed "spoiled symmetry" and is in the style of Norman Shaw, foreshadowing the design of early "Garden City" houses; it represents an early and largely unaltered example.