7, High Street

No. 7 High Street is a shop with offices above, built in 1838. It is constructed from ashlar ham stone and features a flat roof behind a parapet. The building stands three stories tall and has three bays. The ground floor has a modern shopfront that spans between two fluted Doric columns, topped with a stone cornice moulding over the fascia. On the first floor, there is a central two-sided oriel window with plain sashes, which projects from the cornice and is crowned with an anthemion acroteria. This window is flanked by two plain sash windows set in architraves, with cast iron balcony frets positioned between low stone piers that are capped with anthemion ornament. A stone band at the level of the oriel cornice separates the three second-floor windows, which are four-pane sashes set in architraves, with the central window being lugged and heeled. Flat pilasters on either side lead up to a classical dentilled cornice, which is topped by a parapet featuring some open work and a central pediment that includes an incised design with the letters D and B. The interior has not been inspected. This building not only marks one end of King George Street, which was cut through around 1926, but also contributes to the group of older premises that extends around The Borough. It was originally built to house a Savings Bank, which was founded in 1818.