Description

HIGH STREET
1.
5204
(North West Side)
Nos 78 to 81 (consec)
(Nelson Buildings)

TQ 8209 NE 8/30 19.1.51.
II GV
2.
Date 1815-20. A group of 4 houses designed as one building. 4 storeys, half-basement
and attic. Stucco, painted. Wide projecting eaves, supported on coupled consoles.
Half H plan, with slightly projecting wings. Hipped tiled roof, flat roofed attic
dormers with sashes. All sashes with original glazing bars, with keyblocks to
1st and 2nd floor windows, except No 78 in left hand wing which has been refaced
with cement and has later 3-storeyed splayed bay window. No 81 in right-hand wing
has shallow bow window with 3-light sashes on 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. 1st floor
has cast iron balconies and a bust of Nelson in small niche in centre. Ground
floor: No 79 has railings to basement and original doorway with entablature, pilasters,
panelled reveals and door, traceried rectangular fanlight containing lamp. No
78 has later C19 shop front with narrow pilasters and cornice. No 80 has Victorian
shop front with high fascia and blind case. No 81 has original shop front with
pilasters, and plate glass.

All the listed buildings in the High Street up to and including No 118
form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ8250909682

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26486160

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Recommended Books

• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)