Description

SOUTH STREET 1. 1236 (East Side) No 1 TQ 1730 1/107 20.5.49. II GV 2. A large warehouse with shops under, occupying a site on the corner of South Street and Middle Street. Mid C19. 3 storeys. Painted brick, stuccoed on ground-floor. Half-hipped slate roof with iron decorative railing on top, enclosing an octagonal lantern with oversailing eaves supported by small brackets. Spike on top. The main eaves oversail with a moulded cornice supported on curved brackets. 1 window facing west and 1 facing north. Both fronts also have 1 blocked window-space towards the north west corner of the building. All windows have segmental heads, those on north face being triplets. All sashes, glazing bars intact. Circular moulded braces on west side. In the centre of the west front are double loading-doors of 4 panels each, on second floor, with a hinged pulley on a decorative bracket to the left. Directly below are similar double doors with upper 2 panels removed for glazing. Both sets of doors have hinged ramps which are folded over the bottoms of the doors. Heavily moulded cornice above ground-floor, supported on pilasters whose bases merge with the plinth of the building. The ground-floor is curved to take the corner into Middle Street and a moulded ogee-shape occurs above the cornice. Original shop-fronts, the north one projecting, remain on both sides of the building. Recessed double doors in north front with upper parts removed for glazing. All the listed buildings in South Street form an important group with Nos 1 to 7 (odd) Blackhorse Way and with The Manor House, the stables to the south and Nos 24 to 31 (consec), Causeway. Nos 1 to 4 (consec) form a group with Nos 5 and 5A Middle Street.

Listing NGR: TQ1720530534

External Links

• Wikidata Q26278459

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