Description

ROTHBURY HIGH STREET
NU 0501
(North side)
25/290 Conway House
(premises of R.G.
Bolam & Sons)
GV II

House with ground floor shop, dated 1876, with early C19 rear wing. Tooled
ashlar; rear wing squared stone with tooled-and-margined dressings. Welsh
slate roof. Italianate style. 3 storeys + attic, 5 windows. Ground floor
has ornamental timber cornice broken forward above pilasters flanking shopfront
on left and yard entrance on right; twin basket-arched shop windows have
moulded stone plinth and flanking fluted and twisted cast-iron uprights;
central pair of half-glazed doors. Yard entrance has panelled double gates,
the upper parts open with ornamental wrought-iron screenwork, and 3-pane
overlight. lst floor has moulded sill and impost bands and arched windows;
archivolts have keystones with incised ornament, the central dated. 2nd floor
has moulded bands below aprons and at impost level of basket-arched windows.
Moulded eaves cornice on large paired brackets. 2 timber roof dormers with
moulded 3-centred arches. Coped gables on shaped foot stones; truncated
end stacks. All windows plain sashes.

3-bay wing to rear left with renewed 12-pane sashes in alternating-block
surrounds.

Included for group value; altered L-plan range at end of wing is not of
special interest.

Listing NGR: NU0563101735

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26293885

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)