Description

MALPAS C.P. THE CROSS
SJ 44 NE
(East Side)
2/56 The Cross Pharmacy
and House (formerly
including vet's surgery)
adjoining to right.
GV II

Shop, with accommodation over, and house. Faced mid C19, but
double-depth plan suggests core of mid C18 or earlier. Edwardian shop
front. Smooth render, probably on brick; grey slate roof with yellow
ridge-tiles. In mid C19 an earlier house appears to have been
re-cased as a 3-storey, 2-window symmetrical Italianate composition
with 2-storey canted bay window (2-pane: 4-pane: 2-pane) to each side
of a rusticated pedimented doorway. Rusticated stucco centrepiece and
quoins, the former with shell-pediment above eaves level. Moulded
eaves cornice carries ogee cast iron gutters with ornate cresting and
square rainwater pipes, that to left damaged. Coped gables; ball
finials; tall stuccoed chimneys.
The cast-iron pharmacy shop front was added circa 1900 to front of
left bay: tall canted-bay shop window to each side of door with
shaped, glazed upper panel above raised and fielded lower panel.
Sloped fascia. The iron pillars and rails are slender; the decoration
restrained. An unusual design.
Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4876247250

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429457

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)