Description

WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. HIGH STREET (north-east
SJ 5441
side)
8/92
- Nos. 37 and 39
GV
II

Two houses, now 2 shops and flat. Mid-C17 with late C17 addition,
remodelled in the early C19. Rendered timber frame, front wall rebuilt
in red brick. Slate roof. L-plan. 3 framed bays and one-bay wing at
rear with lower 2-bay addition. 3 storeys with partly 2-storey rear wing.
Dentil brick eaves cornice (with paired- headers). Brick stack to right and
integral brick end stack to 3-storey part of rear wing. 3 irregularly-
spaced bays; glazing bar sashes, 16-pane and 4-pane (glazing bars removed)
to first floor and 12-pane to second floor, all with painted stone cills and
lintels. Pair of early to mid-C19 wooden shop-fronts with later plate
glass windows, that to left with windows flanking central pair of half-
glazed doors, and that to right with window and recessed glazed door to
left; both with surrounds consisting of quarter pilasters with acanthus
capitals, and fascia and cornice, that to left with brackets. Boarded
door to side passage at right with 2-part rectangular overlight. Former
illuminated sign and sign advertising "LYONS CAKES" suspended from bracket, both
above left-hand shop doorway. Rear: 2-storey range, partly rebuilt in
brick, with dentil brick eaves cornice, boarded gabled dormer and central
brick ridge stack. Interior: ground-floor front rooms with pairs of
chamfered spine beams. Attic over front range has collar and tie-beam
trusses with queen struts. Lower rear wing with chamfered beams and
collar and tie-beam trusses with queen struts and V-struts.

Listing NGR: SJ5411641646

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26472860

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2