Description

SE 7613-7713 CROWLE HIGH STREET (west side)

16/49 Nos 1-11 (odd)

GV II

Terrace of houses and shops. Includes No 2 Cross Street. Mid C19 with late C19 - early C20 shop fronts; C20 infilling to ground floor of No 5. Red brick with Welsh slate roof. Double-depth plan; L-shaped, on corner site. 3 storeys. 8 bays to east (High Street) front, 4 bays to north (Cross Street) front. Good Art Nouveau-style draper's shopfront to north-east corner with main entrance to rounded angle. Single square column to angle, with recessed part-glazed door (single segmental-headed pane over fielded panel) beneath dentilled bowed lintel and plain overlight, flanked by shop window with large full-height plate-glass panes (3 lights to Cross Street, 7 to High Street), the lights divided by slender wooden shafts with shaped bases and capitals, and reeded upper sections carrying graceful interlaced glazing bars. Frieze splayed-out above has original carved name, largely covered by C20 name board, below moulded cornice and shallow hood. High street entrance to left end has similar recessed plate-glass fielded-panel door, dentilled bowed lintel and overlight. Right end of Cross Street shop front has late C19 pilaster with ribbed panel below and ribbed console with roundel ornament. High Street shop front has further, shop front adjoining to left with similar pilasters, consoles and splayed frieze, recessed door with single basket-arched pane over fielded panel, beneath moulded lintel and ventilator, 2-light plate-glass shop window to right above fielded-panel apron, with slender shafts and responds with carved Corinthian capitals and foliate spandrels with pendant drops. High Street front to left has through carriage entrance with rounded angles beneath timber lintel, and unsympathetic C20 infilled ground-floor section to No 5 with board door and pair of casements below boarded frieze of former shop front; shop front to far left (No 11) with recessed C19 half-glazed panelled door and later single-pane shop window in C19 surround with foliate consoles, frieze, cornice and hood. Cross Street front: entrance adjoining shop front has doorcase with consoles, cornice and hood, panelled door beneath moulded lintel and plain overlight in reveal; round-headed passage entrance to far right with board door beneath boarded panel and rubbed-brick arch; late C19 4-pane sash between entrances with painted stone sill and cambered wedge lintel. Similar 4-pane sashes to first floor, original unequal 9-pane sashes to second floor, apart from C20 casements to High Street bays 2 and 3 and to Cross Street second-floor right bay, all in original surrounds with sills and cambered wedge lintels. Moulded wooden eaves board. Roof with rounded hip to angle. Corniced axial stacks and end stack to south. Rear has 12-pane first-floor sashes, 9-pane second-floor sashes. Interior of draper's shop has cast-iron columns, staircase with moulded handrail, turned balusters and newel post; not fully investigated.

Listing NGR: SE7726613096

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)