55 High Street (EHER 38342)

A late 19th century shop built from red brick in English-bond. The building is three storeys with an attic and has many decorative features in the brickwork of the façade.

October 1996. Grade II listed. A late 19th century shop built from red brick in English-bond with a concealed gambrel roof. The building is three storeys with an attic and has a low-pitched parapeted gable interrupted by a plain sash window, and capped by a brick pediment. The attic storey projects on a corbel table and its face is composed of square special bricks with raised squares on the face to form a kind of diaper effect. The second floor has two plain sash windows with segmental heads, keystones, pediments and linked entablature, all of brick. The sill continues as a moulded dentilled string band. On the first floor is a canted bay window with a swept lead tent roof, dentilled cornice and plain sash windows. The area below the sills is panelled. The ground floor has a 19th century shop front, much altered but with end consoles. <1> It abuts No.53 High Street (EHER 38340) to the west and No.57 High Street (EHER 38343) to the east.