Description

Circa 1852 pair of detached square classical villas divided
into 2 flats. Left villa contains 10 Great George Street
and 63 Bank Street; Right villa contains 2 and 4 Great
George Street. Access to upper flats at rear by external
stone stair; ground floor entrance to Great George
Street. Droved ashlar facades, coursed ashlar flanks; 2
main facades per house. Centre (entrance) bay shallow
advanced with plain parapet. Doorpiece lugged,
architraved and corniced, deeply recessed door with
panelled and rosette architrave and fanlight. Group
floor windows with lugged architraved with bracketted
cills. Centre ground floor windows of side elevation
consoled and pedimented. Windows to all flanks
architraved. Sash windows; No. 2 lying-pane glazing. No
10 plate glass glazing. Continuous heavy cornice and
blocking course to main facades; band course at eaves
of flanks and rear. Unusual treatment of stacks; gable
walls (N-W axis) built up between axial stacks with
roll-moulded blind panels and coped gable. Plain flues,
slate roofs.

Statement of Interest

No 10 formerly Bloomfield Cottage. Part of B group with

1-9 Great George Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17811384

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)