12 High Street

End of terrace house of 3 bays and 3 storeys with slate gabled roof without chimneys. Close eaves and moulded eaves board. Painted roughcast facade with long and short stucco quoins to left and right. Upper floors have horned sashes with marginal glazing. Probably original waisted rainwater heads each side. Ground floor shop extends far forward with flat roof and deep moulded cornice overhanging top of corrugated-iron tent-roofed canopy on four cast-iron columns with florid capitals. Shopfront is of later C19 date but flanked by fluted Greek Doric timber half-columns presumably of earlier C19 date. Recessed centre glazed door with overlight flanked by canted plate glass windows while front has similar 3-light plate-glass windows each side, the panes with curved upper angles and thin dividing shafts. In front and supporting the soffit of the main cornice are 4 reeded and garlanded thin cast-iron columns carrying big concave cast-iron brackets with globe pendants (a fifth bracket to left). Boarded double door to left of shopfront. Blank roughcast right hand return. Former decorative metal fringes to shopfront roof (matching those on Nos 8 and 10) and at edge of canopy have been lost.

Shop interior altered, plain cast iron columns visible within on line of original front wall. House interior not inspected.