Building record 1245506000 - 111 HIGH STREET

Grade II. Early C18 front to earlier building, probably a school and Master's House recorded as opened in 1736. Chequer pattern red and grey brick, with red dressings quoins and parapet. Old tiled roof with 3 box dormers. Moulded brick cornice. Two storeys, 6 double hung sash windows, mostly with original heavy glazing bars, wooden cills and moulded frames, segmental arches of red and grey bricks. Two doors, each with 6 fielded panels, panelled reveals and architrave surround with pulvinated frieze and dentil cornice (B1).
Believed to the 'new build' house that the Grammar School master Rev Benjamin Robertshawe moved into in 1736. A blocked up doorway upstairs leading into No 113 suggests that the master lived in No 111 and the pupils next door in No 113. These houses could also have been the site of Cheyne's Writing School, which, in any case, became amalgamated with the Grammar School after the mid 19th Century (B2).