Description

UNION STREET
1.
1577
(West Side)
Yelf's Hotel
SZ 5992 2/357

II

2.
1784, altered 1805 and in mid C19. Corner site with Yelf's Road. Three
storeys painted brick, stuccoed plinth. Roof concealed by a small stucco
parapet with moulded coping and band. Curved inset corner stuccoed of
one window, and 6 windows to Union Street, four of them mid C19 superimposed
canted bays, through three storeys, three lights each, sash, no glazing
bars, plain surrounds, frieze, plain on ground floor, panelled on first
floor, and with fluted triglyphs to second floor with heavier projecting
cornice to each bay. Other two windows, recessed, sash, no glazing
bars, bars, block sills, flat brick arches. Main entrance in second bay North
of corner. Inner panelled and glazed double doors. Front door, lower
part panelled, rest glazed, architrave surround. Side lights with moulded
sills, swagged aprons, panels below. Entrance is flanked by square
section Tuscan columns supporting entablature with moulded cornice. Partially
obscured by early C20 glazed hood suspended on iron ties over pavement.
Bowed stuccoed corner has recessed panel at top. Recessed slightly bowed
sash windows, glazing bars intact, in architrave surrounds with block sills.
South elevation to Yelf's Road is also stuccoed early C19. From East to West:
three bays with similar windows, in architrave surrounds, to those on
corner. Next a taller block (still of three storeys) with moulded cornice
and parapet. Six windows, the outer ones in slightly recessed bays, a
number of them blind, others recessed sash, glazing bars and block sills,
two recessed panelled doors, one with narrow rectangular fanlight.
Raised stucco surrounds and plain friezes with block cornices. The Western
door is raised up but there are no steps down. The inner facades to rear
facing North and West show a similar treatment, some windows with bracketed
cast iron balconies.

Listing NGR: SZ5920792711

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26532083

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