Description

SS3403 HOLSWORTHY HIGH STREET (North side)

16/68 Nos 2 and 3

GV II

Shops with offices. Late C19. Brick or rendered brickwork, some stone dressings, slate
roofs. A group of three (now 2) Italiante shops with offices or accommodation above, set
to the curve of the street, with back wings containing very narrow light well. In 3
storeys plus attic; at ground floor are 3 shop fronts in simple detail with plate glass,
that to No 3 (House of Hair) far right retaining 4 vertical panes and set-back door with
large transom light. Divided by stone pilaster strips with horizontal grooving and
decorative foliated caps carrying pair of brackets in continuous fascia below moulded
continuous cornice topped by good decorative cast-iron balustrade. Each of 3 fronts
has two pairs of windows at first and second floor with moulded architrave and decorative
bay to arched heads carried on bracket capitals at responds and central detached
colonnette. Pilaster bands carry through to cornice blocking and parapet with moulded
cill band to second floor. Central to middle, curved unit a raised section supported by
scrolls and containing pair of small arched lights to each side unit and 2 round-headed
dormers. No 2 (Pretty Maid) is rendered at the front. Plain gable returns plate glass
sashes in set-backs to light wells. Broad brick stack at north end of No. 3.

A vigorous and little altered late Victorian composition holding an important position
at a street junction and near the church, opposite No 3 North Road (qv) in similar style.

Listing NGR: SS3433103864

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26398906

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide