Listed Building: 51-55 HIGH STREET (1362831)

1. 5344 HIGH STREET (South Side) Nos 51 to 55 (odd) TR 0142 NW 1/8 24.9.51. II* GV 2. Together with Church Gates, The Churchyard. The range facing Middle Row is C15 to C16 timber framed with close-studding to Nos 53 and 55, plastered to No 51. 2 storeys and attics. Hipped tiled roof with 2 gabled dormers. 6 windows and a loft door with hoist. Sashes with glazing bars intact and one smalI bay of 3 lights. Ground floor has modern shop fronts but at the north-west corner of No 55 are good curved glazed double doors to the shop, placed in a reeded architrave surround. Nos 53 and 55 have exposed beams. No 55 having chamfered edges and also a 4 centred doorway with blank spandrels. To the rear of Nos 53 and 55 is an C18 house of higher elevation facing the Churchyard called Church Gates. 3 storeys red brick. Hipped tiled roof with wooden modillion eaves cornice. 4 windows, several of them modern and a C19 cast iron balcony added on the 1st floor. Doorcase in moulded architrave surround with projecting cornice supported on consoles, low rectangular fanlight and 6-panelled moulded door. To the rear of No 51 is an C18 building of 2 storeys stuccoed. Hipped tiled roof with 1 hipped dormer. 1 sash with glazing bars intact. Shop front to ground floor. Plain recessed doorcases. Nos 51 to 61 (odd), 61A, 63 to 67 (odd), 67A, 69 to 71 (odd). 75 and the rear part of 75 form a group with all items in The Churchyard. Listing NGR: TR0105142770