Description

COLMORE ROW
1.
5104
City Centre B3
No 130
SP 0686 NE 33/20 21.1.70
II GV
2.
Includes No 26 Waterloo Street. Early C20 and in an Edwardian Baroque style.
Stone on a granite plinth. Two storeys; 3 bays plus the polygonal corner with
entrance. Banded rustication. Ground floor with 3 arched windows with large
keystones. First floor a temple front with 3 windows with pediments in the
rhythm segmental: triangular: segmental and Ionic pilasters and columns supporting
a richly detailed pediment. The entrance beneath a large broken segmental pediment
with coat of arms. Above that, windows and a giant order of Ionic columns and
piers, a clock and then a cupola with coupled columns in the diagonals. The return
on Waterloo Street with 3 arched windows and the entrance to No 26 Waterloo Street
and a first floor oriel window set between coupled Ionic pilasters that carry a
broken segmental pediment and 4 pedimented windows with garlands above.

Listing NGR: SP0675586912

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• 130 Colmore Row at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q18159596

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)