22 High Street

22 High Street is a terraced house built in the 18th century, featuring painted stucco and a slate close-eaved hipped roof with a brick stack at the right end. The building stands three storeys tall with an attic and has a three-window range. It includes two hipped dormers with six panes each. The main windows are large, 12-pane hornless sashes with cambered heads and slate sills. The entrance is located in the left bay and is framed by a fine open-pedimented doorcase supported by Ionic three-quarter columns. The entablature features pulvinated friezes and modillions. The doorway has a crescent-shaped fanlight set at the wall face, leading to a tall cambered-headed door with ten panels, eight of which are fielded, and two cambered-headed glass panels at the top. Stone steps with short iron railings and urn finials lead up to the entrance, and there are two basement lights to the right.

Inside, the house boasts a fine interior with fielded dado panels in the hall. There is an inner half-glazed door from around 1900 with leaded glass in the overlight. The ground floor features earlier 19th-century six-panel doors in two rooms (not inspected). An elliptical-arched hall arch is supported by fluted pilasters. Modern stairs lead to the basement. A notable mid-18th-century dog-leg staircase features square fluted newels, a moulded rail, turned balusters, and scrolled tread ends, rising in four flights to the top floor. The first floor has two rooms with fielded panelled six-panel doors (rooms not accessible), and there is fielded panelling below the stair window between floors. The top floor retains its mid-18th-century character, with fielded panelled walls between the back room and stair, as well as between the two front rooms, and moulded cornices. The doors here are made of two large panels. A short angled passage leading to the front rooms from the top of the stairs is also panelled, featuring an elliptical arch, a panelled soffit with rosettes, and a lion mask keystone. To the right of this passage, a narrow two-panel door provides access to a narrow stair leading up to the attic, which contains two rooms under the hipped roof.