House and Tenovus

House and Tenovus, 20-22 High Street

A 2-storey 3-window house and shop with whitened pebble-dashed front, black-painted smooth-rendered plinth, and imitation timber-framing in the upper storey. The building features a steep slate roof, a reduced stone stack to the left, a central brick stack, and a projecting first-floor stack to the right gable end. At ground-floor level the building has been subdivided into a 2-window house on the left (No. 22) and a 1-window shop on the right (No. 20).

The shop front has a symmetrical design with a panelled stall riser, plate glass windows with colonnettes, a fascia, and a billet frieze to the cornice. A central recessed glazed door with lower panel and overlight provides access. No. 22 has pilaster strips in the lower storey. Its central entrance is reached up slate steps with scrollwork iron railings. The entrance is fitted with a replacement half-glazed fielded-panel door beneath an earlier lozenge-pattern overlight. The entrance is flanked on the left by a 20-pane hornless sash window and on the right by a similar 16-pane window, both with eared and lugged architraves with pediments. First-floor hornless sash windows are 20-pane to the right and left, with a 16-pane window in the centre.

The gable ends and rear are of rubble stone. The left gable end shows uneven stonework, suggesting partial rebuilding. Inserted ground and first-floor windows are located on the left side. The rear is topped by a pebble-dash lean-to containing two first-floor 2-light casement windows above, with fixed small-pane and 20th-century steel-framed 2-light windows below. A replacement doorway is set in the splayed left end.

A 1½-storey rear wing extends in line with the left gable end, featuring a large rear lateral stack offset to the left with the upper part rebuilt in brick. The courtyard-facing openings are all altered. At the left end is an original timber lintel above a later half-glazed door and small-pane window. To the right is a half-glazed door beneath an original timber lintel. Further right are a fixed inserted window and 19th-century brick segmental heads to a boarded door and another fixed window. The attic contains a shuttered opening to the left and a larger opening to the right infilled with 20th-century glazing. Where ground level is higher at the gable end, an inserted panel door in a concrete surround provides access to the attic. Facing the entrance to Bull Cottages, the rear wall has a small-pane 3-light casement window beneath a wooden lintel.

Inside, the first floor at the right-hand end above the shop contains an original fireplace with a stone shouldered lintel. The rear wing has two rooms with joist-beam ceilings, one featuring run-out stops, and a large fireplace with timber lintel.