Shop and Dunn & Ellis Accountants

Shop and Dunn & Ellis Accountants, 1-9 High Street

A row of four late-Georgian style three-storey two-window shops with houses above. The buildings have slate-hung fronts and a slate roof hipped at the right end where the corner is also splayed. Transverse stone stacks run across the roofs, with a fourth pebble-dashed stack at the right end. The houses are not of equal width: No. 1 is the widest, while Nos. 7 and 9 are narrower than No. 3.

No. 1 (Pioden) has a replacement lower-storey window and door to the right in a modern stone surround. To its right is a single-storey flat-roofed extension with slate-hung walls and a wide modern shop window under an awning. The middle storey contains 12-pane hornless sashes and the upper storey has shorter 9-pane sashes.

No. 3 (Harbour Restaurant) has its entrance to the left, a recessed replacement boarded door under an overlight. To the right is a modern shop window in an earlier opening, with an awning and modern fascia across the lower storey. The middle storey has replacement 12-pane horned sash windows and the upper storey has similar but shorter 9-pane sashes.

No. 7 has its entrance to the left, a recessed replacement glazed door under an overlight, with a replacement shop window to the right in an earlier opening, under a modern fascia. No. 9 (Portmeirion Pottery and Gifts) has a late 19th-century shop front with replacement window and recessed entrance to the left with replacement glazed door. The middle and upper storeys of Nos. 7 and 9 have hornless sash windows similar to Nos. 1 and 3, but with the glazing bars in the lower sashes removed.

The left gable end (No. 9) is built of large blocks of unworked slate-stone laid in regular courses in the lower and middle storeys, with roughcast above. The lower storey has inserted paired horned sash windows, and small-pane sash windows on the left side in lower and middle storeys. The upper storey has a small-pane sash window to the right. The two-window right end wall (No. 1), facing Madoc Street, is slate-hung above a lower-storey dentilled cornice, with 12-pane and 9-pane sash windows similar to the front. To the right of the single-storey extension is a 4-pane hornless sash window in the lower storey.

The rear elevations, where Nos. 3, 7 and 9 are set slightly back from No. 1, are of rubble laid in rough courses and retain some small-pane sash windows alongside replacement windows and rear wings. No. 1 has a one-storey projection under a single-pitch roof. No. 3 has a narrow two-storey wing. Nos. 7-9 have a longer two-storey rear roughcast wing with a pebble-dashed front facing the lane at the side of the block. It has 20th-century horned sash windows, renewed external steps at the left end to a replacement first-floor door, and a half-glazed door and shop window inserted in a former wide doorway.