41 High Street (EHER 38335)

A shop and offices built in around 1870-1880 from White Suffolk brick in English-bond with stone dressings. It has a Welsh slate hipped roof behind a complex parapet of moulded brick with stone brackets and stone consoles with fluting on each flank. The building is three storeys with a two-storey hipped slate roofed contemporary block attached to the rear. The shop front has elaborate carved details, partly obscured by a 20th century shop fascia.

October 1996. Grade II listed. A shop and offices built in around 1870-1880 from White Suffolk brick in English-bond with stone dressings. It has a Welsh slate hipped roof behind a complex parapet of moulded brick with stone brackets and stone consoles with fluting on each flank. The building is three storeys with a two-storey hipped slate roofed contemporary block attached to the rear. The second floor has a three-window range. The first floor has three similar windows with semicircular arches above, containing spandrels of stone with flat geometric bands and a rose motif. There is also a string band of brick across the facade arching over the heads of the windows. The brickwork of the ground floor is painted and has a shop frontage with a stone dentilled cornice and end console brackets supporting blocks. There are three openings with richly moulded soffits, 'L-plan' piers on each flank and 'T-plan' piers framing the central opening; these have exuberantly carved Gothic capitals. Part of this is now obscured by a 20th century shop fascia. The central opening has a pair of glazed doors and three stone steps. <1> See photo <2>.