Description

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SK 5804 SE
3/214

BISHOP STREET
No 6 (Alliance House)

GV
II
1885-1888. Architect E. Burgess. Former Liberal Club. Red brick and ashlar dressings. Six window bays. Ground floor completely altered, plate glass, polished granite and large fascia. Above bays divided by brick pilasters supporting entablature over first and second floors, stone mullion/transom windows in moulded architraves. First floor right recessed three-bay arcaded balcony feature with splayed bay window at centre and balustrade. Steep-pitched tiled roof with two pyramid-shaped sections, with finials, partly concealed by round-arched pilastered features rising from second floor parapet. Included for group value.

All the listed buildings in Bishop Street together with The Town Hall, Fountain and War Memorial, Town Hall Square, and Nos 6-8, The Royal Hotel, Nos 17, 19 and 21 Horsefair Street form a group around Town Hall Square.

Listing NGR: SK5887504321

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26336111

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)