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This is a late Georgian shop and house, now divided into two separate units at 31 and 33 High Street. From at least the mid-19th century, the building operated as a draper's shop with a domestic section, and a sewing room occupied the upper floor. Later 19th-century alterations were made to the shop fronts and the first-floor window of number 33.

The building is of local rubble construction with a slate roof, plain eaves, and a squat end chimney on the right-hand side, featuring plain cornicing. The three-bay facade is slightly offset to the left. Both units have late 19th-century shop fronts. The right-hand unit (number 31) has large, canted shop windows with simple Gothic glazing on either side of a central, arched, part-glazed entrance. The left-hand unit (number 33) features a single large shop window to the left of its more recent entrance, set within an original rectangular bay with panelled pilasters; it has a plain, part-glazed door. The first floor of number 31 retains two original, unhorned 12-pane sash windows, while number 33 has a Victorian square wooden bay window with a moulded cornice and triple 2-pane sashes, with single sashes to the returns. The second floor retains original 9-pane sash windows, with projecting stone sills. The interior was not inspected at the time of survey. It belongs to a group including numbers 31 and 33 High Street.