40 High Street

40 High Street is a late 19th-century commercial building made of painted brick with painted stone dressings and a slate roof. It stands three storeys tall and features a five-window range. The ground floor was completely renewed around 1970, but the upper storeys remain virtually unaltered. The first floor has tall wooden mullioned and transomed windows set in moulded architraves, with a deep panelled sill band and segmental pediments supported by brackets over each window. The upper storey has a bracketed sill band and entablature hoods above each window, along with angle quoins. The building also has a deep eaves band with modillion brackets that support a projecting cornice.

Despite the changes to the internal layout and ground floor, this building is an interesting example of late 19th-century commercial development and is part of an important group of buildings on High Street.