37, High Street

Excavation has suggested that tanning was carried out on this site as early as the 17th century. The current building was commissioned as a three-storey private house for a tanning family. The building was designed in the neoclassical style, built in red brick with stone dressings and, although elements may be older, it was rebuilt in about 1800. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto the High Street. The central bay, which was slightly projected forward, featured a porch formed by a pair of unfluted Ionic order columns supporting an open pediment, with sash windows with voussoirs and keystones on the first and second floors. The outer bays were…