79 High Street

Later 19th century. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay, symmetrical tenement with 2 shops at ground floor and 2 canted dormers, forming part of terrace. Painted ashlar and smooth render to shopfront; tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone with raised, polished ashlar dressings above. Shopfront cornice; 1st-floor cill course; eaves course connecting 2nd-floor lintels; cornice. Stop-chamfered window margins, with bracketed cills at 2nd floor. Central 6-panel timber tenement door with fanlight in shouldered architrave flanked by plain shopfronts at ground floor (No 79 retaining historic door and glazing; No 77 with later-20th-century shopfront); rectangular openings at 1st floor; basket-arched openings at 2nd floor.

Plate glass to shopfronts; some 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows at 1st floor; non-traditional uPVC glazing to 2nd floor and attic. Grey slate roof. Ashlar-coped skews. Coped ashlar gablehead stack with buff clay cans.