Description

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SS826000 HIGH STREET 672-1/5/111 (North side) 19/03/51 No.137

GV II

House or commercial building, now shop, office and restaurant with accommodation above. Late C18 or early C19; late C19 alterations; refurbishment of the 1980s. Front elevation handmade Flemish bond brick with painted dressings, right return and rear plastered, some cob construction; tarred hipped slate roof behind parapet; axial and rear lateral stacks with brick shafts. Plan: U-plan with projecting rear wings and single depth main block. Exterior: 3 storeys & basement. Deep, moulded cornice below parapet with a platband below cornice. Front elevation symmetrical above the ground floor, 3-bays with left and right pilasters, the centre bay slightly broken forward with pilasters and a boldly moulded pediment with a blind roundel with a moulded frame in the tympanum and a (disused) clock face on the roundel. The outer bays have platbands at second floor sill level. Piano nobile first floor, the centre window with a moulded architrave and triangular pediment on consoles; left and right windows with moulded architraves, all first floor windows glazed with 2-light high transomed casements with glazing bars and margin panes. 3 first floor windows with moulded architraves, glazed with 2/4 pane sashes with margin panes. Left hand shop window, altered in the late C20 retains a late C19 fascia and is flanked by doors (left hand door blocked) with doorcases with pilasters with a fret decoration below the capitals. The right hand doorway has a recessed C20 glazed door with an overlight. C20 plate glass shop front and door to ground floor right (now an office). The right return, facing North Street, is one-bay with a high tansomed first floor window and a half basement window. The rear wing has various C19 timber casements and sashes and incorporates an old cast iron street sign with a pointing hand. The rear elevation has a rear centre C19 doorcase with moulded brackets and a round-headed stair window with margin panes. Various timber casements and sashes include a sliding sash on the inner return of the rear right wing. Interior: Not fully inspected but contains good open well stick baluster stair with a ramped mahogany handrail to the rear and some of the flats are noted as having slate chimney-pieces.

Listing NGR: SS8324900315

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