Description

1.
1260 ARCADE STREET
Nos 1 and 2
(The Arcade)
TM 1644 NW 1/12

II GV

2.
An early C19 stuccoed archway which connects Arcade Street with King Street.
It has a central feature with pilasters, frieze amid a cornice surmounted
by a balustrade, and a central elliptical archway with a moulded stucco architrave
and plain Ionic columns inset at thc corners. The central feature is flanked
by 2 storeyed stuccoed wings, each of 2 window range. Some double-hung sashes
with glazing bars and some C20 casements. The ground storey has a 3-light
double-hung sash window on the north end and a C20 shop front on the south
end. The interior of the archway is a plastered elliptical barrel vault
in 3 sections. At the rear, in Arcade Street, the flanking wings are pedimented
(one with a Diocletian window). The south end has a tall window of double-hung
sashes with glazing bars.

Nos 1 and 2 form a group with the Corn Exchange and the Swan Inn, King Street.

Listing NGR: TM1616444577

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26289501

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)