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Photos 2009 by Robert Clark, survey 2012 by Clive Wood, edited 2023 KC
Architecture - High Street
Architectural Survey by Clive Wood 2012


with photographs by Robert Clark 2009

[For 2009 survey of Businesses]
Note: There had been changes between the two surveys and several further changes
in the decade since this survey.

Part 3

From Station Road to Central High Street

Proceed Southwards, I will attempt to give some guidance of the street scene that exists.








The first building is a former shoe factory and corn merchants, currently an Undertakers. Three stories painted brickwork, slate roof, corner of Station Road.








A block of six units, modern development, red brick two stories, minimal decoration red brick pilasters sub-divide the frontage, security shuttering, windows first floor level, modern plastic, pitched roof.












A former public house, converted into a Wetherspoons, retains its original Edwardian detail decorative door and window surrounds, 'Tudor' decoration to gable two dormer windows and chimney stacks, new extension into Duck Street, the whole painted off-white. Some new red brick piers/metal fencing enclose premises in Duck Street.





Cross Duck Street junction

135
One of the earliest surviving buildings, originally a dwelling house, two stories with pitched slate roof, the only commercial premises in the High Street with a forecourt recent shopfront type projection added to frontage, first floor windows modern plastic, truncated chimney stack.

133
Totally dominating its neighbours one of the three iconic buildings in the street, built with all the self-confidence of the Victorian Age, and one assumes a building that will always remain, three stories, ground floor of decorative stone arches, pilasters and fascia topped with heavy cornice, first and second stories of red brick and stone, string courses and brackets, large sash windows framed with stone, on the second floor smaller semi-circular topped windows more larger stone brackets with a heavy cornice above which two gable like structures of brick and stone are topped by heraldic figures also of stone. Large brick and stone chimney stacks.

131
A two storey one unit premises large windows to first floor, modern plastic windows, blue slate roof, red decorative ridge tiles. Fascia over large lettering.

129
Single unit Red brick with central gable like structure with window, windows at first floor level, three central windows within a stone edged panel, all glazing modern plastic, red brick chimney stacks with oversailer courses, with red pots, slate roof decorative red ridge tiles. Modern shopfront.

127
A large single unit, two storey, above fascia red brick with white joints, projecting centre framed by coursed pilasters of brick and tile, repeated at each end. Above four sash windows, redbrick voussoirs topped by a stone soffit and cornice, above the cornice a central parapet of brick topped with a stone coping flanked by stone panels, the windows glazed four by five panes original. At fascia level a deep stone cornice, below fascia level steel shutters.

125
A corner property on West Street, a completely painted premises, two storey, pitched roof, windows at first floor level all modern replacements, below fascia rather garish, the rest of the building in a 'strong' colour.

121-123
Two properties of two stories, originally houses, first floor walls painted, pitched roofs with no features, below fascias refitted.

121
Bakehouse to rear yard.
119
Standing empty for several years.

113-117
A large block of three units built as shops, three stories, maintain the appearance of gable ends to the street, 117 has been completely painted white and the upper window mutilated out of recognition though it retains its slate roof and decorative red ridge tile, the others showing brickwork, white brick to 117the second floor, above that white and red brick courses, window frames and voussoirs in red brick, bay windows above a mixture of fascias, all altered to varying degrees, 113 retains large fascia brackets, close to the bay window.

111a
West End store originally a Club, now a single storey general store, paint and hardware etc.

107-109
A block of two units, two storey, redbrick, windows on first floor, contained within a stone panel, building topped with a stone shape below fascia level steel shutters. Built in the 1920s.

105
Feathers Inn. Another public house, attractive design Red brick, central stone entrance porch rising to above the roof, decorative fascia and soffit with paired brackets, sash windows at first floor level, original, similar windows at ground level, attractive arched doorway, main entrance. Large red brick chimney stacks, tiled roof.
[since has suffered a fire, part demolished]

103
A small single storey unit with a room in the roof with one metal window, of little merit, totally detached. [2022 demolished]

95-97
A large block of double and single unit, red brick including pilasters to the roof, topped with stone copings, six windows first floor level, windows with curved tops and keystones, flat roof. Fascia too high, at odds with neighbours.


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