17 High Street

Commercial premises, large scale painted stucco with slate roofs behind parapets. Three brick chimneys. Four-storey, five-bay front with two windows per bay, plate glass sashes. Three superimposed orders of pilasters: to ground floor, middle two floors and top floor, each with a heavy cornice broken forward over the pilasters. The pilasters of the two main floors have a little zig-zag and roundel decoration. The two floors have a minor order of pilasters at each level, with moulded band between. The slightly wider centre pier has an additional applied pilaster. The top floor has similar detail, but some mouldings removed in left two bays. Ground floor has three-bay shopfront each side of a tall throughway. Heavy cornice with fluted modillions. Four thicker pilasters framing throughway and shopfronts and two small pilasters framing the shop door of each shop, raised on a plinth of painted tolled grey limestone. Plate glass shop windows with curved upper corners, recessed doors with similar tall overlights. Throughway has a pair of big boarded doors, cambered headed. Throughway gives access to a narrow rear court flanked on both sides by tall rubble-stone four-storey ranges with 12-pane sashes in brick surrounds, loading doors in outermost bay each side. Ground floors much altered. One-window range of similar windows to rear of front range, above throughway, which has metal lintel.

Interior not inspected.