Description

ILMINSTER

ST3614 SILVER STREET
1939-1/7/90 (South side)
29/07/76 Nos.1 AND 3

GV II

Corner shop. c1840. Ham Hill stone ashlar with hipped, crested
slate roof. L-shape plan. 3 storeys; 6-window range. 2
pilasters with incised key-pattern to the tops, one to the far
right and one to left of the Silver Street facade, support a
continuous moulded cornice below a low parapet wall. All
windows have keystones. The range to the left, in Ditton
Street, has 3 late C19 two/two-pane sashes to the first floor,
and 6/6-pane to the second. Other windows are 8/8-pane sashes;
2 on each floor to the right, a similar curved one on the
corner with a blind window above and the late C19 shop front
below. The entrance to this is in Silver Street: it has
set-back double half-glazed doors with overlight, flanked by
plate-glass windows with colonnettes with ornamented tops, a
curved one on the corner, and a single one in Ditton Street.
The continuous fascia has cast-iron cresting; below it, to the
far right, is a Regency-style 6-panel door with an overlight
of a circle flanked by diamonds. Between the right and the
inside-right windows of the first floor hangs a large
horizontal key on brackets.
INTERIOR: ground-floor is totally changed.

Listing NGR: ST3612614509

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489614

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)