Description
1866. 3-storey and attic, 5-bay tenement with Classical details. Sandstone ashlar to front, squared and snecked to rear, 1st floor cill cornice and band course, band course between 1st and 2nd floors, eaves cornice, parapet, architraved margins.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, modern shopfronts to left and right at ground, pend to centre, 1st floor windows with pilaster bases, those at 2nd with corniced cills and squared corners to heads, dominant nepus gable, round-arched window to centre with pedimented armorial keystone, lozenge strapwork panel to stack, flanking canted piended dormers set back from parapet.
N ELEVATION: adjoining 13/15 High Street, stone-mullioned bipartite window to left at 1st.
S ELEVATION: adjoining 23/27 High Street, window to left at 2nd floor.
E ELEVATION: asymmetrical, bipartite window at 1st and 2nd
above pend to centre, advanced single bay stairtower to left, windows at 1st-3rd, single storey building abutting at ground and extending E, single bay to left, advanced gable end to right of pend, window off-set to left at 2nd, single storey building abutting at ground and extending E, single bay in return to left, windows at 1st and 2nd, ground floor window blocked and modern external flue added. Entrance to upper storeys in S wall of pend, with stugged ashlar margins.
Timber sash and case windows, plate glass to front, 12-pane to rear, frosted and stained glass at 1st and 2nd in stairtower, grey slate, stone skews, tall rendered gablehead stack to E, polygonal cans.
INTERIOR: modern shop conversions at ground, cast-iron banisters to dog-leg staircase, splayed and battered timber reveals to staircase windows. Upper floors not seen 1997.