23 High Street

This building is a three storeys high and built with rendered brick. It has a ridged, slate roof with ornamental ridge tiling and a parapet extending to the edge of the ridge. There are also two brick, transverse chimneys which are capped at the top and possess ornate brickwork. There are two single entrances and on the ground floor there are ornamented stone pillars around the entrances and windows. There are three large casement windows, two with four panes of glass each which are one larger pane and three smaller. The door is set into the third casement window surrounded by four panes of glass, with three panes directly above the door. On the second floor there is an ornate dormer window which has ornate panelling on either side, with a hipped slate roof and a finial. On the first floor there is a protruding bay window with sash windows and fixed windows above. Set back on either side of this are French doors with windows above them. On one side of the building there is an alleyway running alongside it. There is one casement window between the first and second floors with two panes and a second, smaller one further up. There is also a sloping extension towards the rear wall. On the other side there is evidence for another building alongside the current structure and quoins. There is a two paned casement window on the first floor and an original extension that extends to cover half the building. This has two casement windows at the first floor level and one on the second floor. There is also a single storey rear extension with one casement window and a two storey modern extension beyond with one casement window. To the rear is the back of the modern extension, which has three casement windows on the first floor and possibly two blocked in windows on the ground floor. This modern extension has a flat roof.