24 High Street

Early C19 terraced house and shop, painted stucco with slate roof and deep flat eaves with paired brackets. Three storeys, three-window range of hornless 12-pane sashes to upper floors, the centre upper window blank with painted inscription 'Founded 1901'. Windows are in moulded architraves. Modernised 1901 full-width shop front with deep fascia, thin shafts to angles of plate glass windows, mosaic floor in recessed entry lettered 'Tom Davies', panelled soffit and half-glazed early C20 door. Long rubble stone gabled rear wing, basement and three storeys with late C18 Venetian window to ground floor with deep radiating brick voussoirs, C19 plate glass glazing. Attic 12-pane sash and first floor French window with brick cambered head. Whitewashed E side wall.

Interior of ground floor front range altered as shop, but retaining early C19 staircase at right angles to front, rising in four flights with square balusters, scrolled tread ends, scrolled foot to continuous hardwood hand rail. Rear wing ground floor room has unusual plaster cornice, probably late C18 . Undercut leaf top moulding, and shallow modillions with unusual tassel-shaped drops beneath. Panelled reveal to N window, with bordered panels. Basement below has triple arched late C18 cooking-range recess, wide centre arch, narrow side arches, in brick with raised imposts and keystones. Raised floor level to N with blocked fireplace with brick head, over sub-basement area.