38 High Street

38 High Street is a mid-19th century house and shop with a rear wing, designed in the Georgian style. The front elevation features two storeys and two wide bays, topped by a fairly shallow-pitched slate gabled roof with grey brick chimneys at either end. The building has deep eaves supported by paired eaves brackets. The facade is painted stucco, with a plinth and long and short quoins on the left and right sides, although the left ground floor lacks quoins where the shop front turns the corner.

The windows have square-headed moulded surrounds with white quartz stone inlay and keystones. The upper floor has two 12-pane hornless sash windows, while the ground floor has one sash window on the right, positioned further right than the upper right window, which is located above the house door. The house door, dating from the 20th century, features an overlight with arched lights. The shopfront occupies the left half of the ground floor and includes a corniced fascia that extends over the house door. It has a recessed central 20th-century half-glazed shop door flanked by two-pane plate glass windows, with a similar pane canted in towards the shop door. There is also a single pane on the left-hand return to Orchard Street, and the shopfront features a moulded sill.

The left gable end has long and short quoins and two bays with aligned 4-pane horned sash windows that have similar surrounds to those on the front. The lower rear wing has a roof line consistent with those in Orchard Street but features three small storeys instead of the two seen in the rest of the street. This wing has deep eaves and two 4-pane sashes on each upper floor, with the upper ones being shorter, and one ground floor window located between two doorways: broad double doors for coach entry on the left and a single house door with an overlight on the right. The building has a raised plinth.

Inside the shop, iron columns are visible through the windows, and the shop features wooden floors and fittings.