No 51 including near-detached rear wing

This is a four-storey house and shop, likely dating from the 18th century, with a near-detached rear wing. The front elevation is of unpainted render, concealing the roof behind a parapet, with large roughcast chimneys at each end that project forward of the gable. The upper three floors feature 12-pane sash windows, replaced since 1981, with smaller windows on the two top floors. The ground floor incorporates an early 20th-century shop front, featuring a shop door to the left of a large plate glass window, with a curved bracket in the upper corner. The shop’s fascia and cornice are obscured, but their basic form is consistent with a photograph taken around 1900. The wider spacing between the upper floors suggests the top floor is a later addition.

At the rear, a rendered basement is visible, along with a four-storey gable to the left, showcasing a four-pane sash window to the top floor and a 12-pane window to the second floor, both aligned slightly to the left of centre. A central first-floor window features ogee tracery glazing bars. A 20th-century lean-to structure sits below, while to the right, a lower rear wall with close eaves and windows at alternating levels illuminates the stairwell.

The near-detached, north-east rear wing is two storeys high, built of whitewashed rubble stone with a gabled slate roof and end chimneys. The north end has a massive external chimney breast with sloping shoulders and a square stone stack raised in brick. A smaller stone stack, also raised in brick, is on the south end. The southwest front wall displays three small sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor, a similar window on the ground floor to the left, a doorway to the left of centre, and two further windows.

The interior of the ground floor has had walls removed, but significant original features survive. Against the left wall, formerly at the end of the entrance passage, a fine doorway features panelled pilasters, a moulded arch, a keystone, and a cornice. It leads to double-panelled doors with fielded panels. A staircase from the 18th century has turned balusters and a moulded rail. Visible ground floor cornices remain, and behind temporary shop walls are fielded wall panelling. The front room showcases a dentil cornice on two walls, and an open pedimented overmantel on the north-east wall. The inner room has a moulded cornice and fielded panelled overmantel on the north-east wall. A narrow rear room has a plain cornice.

A fine front first-floor room features full panelling, a modillion cornice, and a fine enriched fireplace with panelled pilasters and a scrolled frieze. The overmantel is carved in a mid-18th century style, with a shouldered surround to the panel and ornate side scrolls, topped with a broken scrolled pediment containing a shell. The upper floor of the rear wing, accessible from the shop’s ground floor level, has four oak collar trusses supporting a double-purlin roof, with a chimney breast at each end. A cellar is reportedly home to a chamfered beam.