50 and 50A High Street (EHER 38338)

Nos 50 and 50A High Street are an early 19th century building, now shops and offices. The building is built from gault brick with Portland stone dressings, and has a slate-covered hipped roof over the front range. It is four storeys with a cellar and comprises a symmetrical three-bay range with 20th century flat-roofed rear extension. It has a 19th century shop fascia with two 20th century plate-glass shop-fronts.

October 1951. Grade II listed. Nos 50 and 50A High Street are an early 19th century building, now shops and offices. The building is built from gault brick with Portland stone dressings, and has a slate-covered hipped roof over the front range. It is four storeys with a cellar and comprises a symmetrical three-bay range with 20th century flat-roofed rear extension. The frontage has a parapet and dentilled brick cornice. There are four giant pilasters with stone caps which frame the two wide outer bays and a narrow centre bay. The ground floor has a 19th century fascia with dentilled cornice on elaborate consoles and two 20th century plate-glass shop-fronts. On the rear elevation there is the southern half of an earlier roof taking the form of two plain tile lean-tos with two hipped dormers and a gabled dormer-like extension housing a staircase. There is also the stump of a 19th century chimney stack against the rear of the front range. A further two-storey rear extension extends at right-angles and has a slate-covered roof, rendered walls and a ridgeline chimney stack. Internally, there is some late 17th century roof framing exposed on the upper floors of the rear part, including a butt side purlin. <1> See photos <2>. It abuts No.48 High Street to the west and No.52 High Street (EHER 38339) to the east.