Building record 1486202000 - 99 High Street

Built to house the headmaster of the adjacent building. Erected by public subscription in memory of the Rev William Walton, a stone plaque recording this was originally positioned on the north gable, but is now housed within the church. Building forms part of a group with 97a and 97b, High Street. Two storey buff coloured brick building. Positioned beneath steeply pitched gable roof, the ridgeline of which runs parallel with the carriageway. Roof laid in tiles with decorative ridge tiles. Two very tall and visually striking brick chimney stacks located at right hand (facing) gable and almost centrally along ridgeline. Regular two bay elevation pattern to main street with two ground floor canted bays to ground floor and two projecting mullion and transom windows to first floor. Leaded lights to top panes of both ground and first floor windows. Red bricks are used to emphasis first floor windows and are also
used as quoins. Bays sit beneath gables which break eaves line. Apex of gables decorated with applied timber organised in two different patterns and which divide panels of pebbledash. Simple, but nevertheless visually striking building, rendered particularly eye-catching due to colour of brickwork, height of chimneys and decorative fenestration detail. Architect – William Taylor. A Local Building of Note within the Conservation Area (B1).