Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Date of Designation
22/03/1993
Date of Amendment
22/03/1993
Name of Property
46 High Street
Location
Opposite Cain Valley Hotel.
History
Formerly King's Head public house, converted in later C19 to two shops. Circa 1800.
Exterior
Three-storey, three window shop. Brick front (painted), elevation to L in thin-scantling timber-framing with brick infill. Hipped slate roof with boarded eaves, rectangular brick chimneys. Windows on first and second floors all have elliptical heads with plaster fan fluting as at Brookside (Vine Square). Small pane mainly hornless sash glazing to first floor (eight-pane) and second floor (sixteen-pane). On ground floor, two later C19 shopfronts; two doorways (double doors with rectangular overlights) each with window to each side; shopfront articulated by classically inspired pilasters; bracketed entablature with modern fascia board.
L elevation has small-scantling timber-framing with brick infill.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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