Description

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SS4526 ALLHALLAND STREET 842-1/5/8 (West side) 19/03/73 Nos.8A AND 8B Merchant House (Formerly Listed as: ALLHALLAND STREET (West side) Nos.8A AND 8B)

GV II

House, now shops, offices and restaurant. C16 or C17, remodelled early and late C18. Slate roof. Old red brick chimney on left gable end. Plan altered. Plan: in late C18 a double-fronted plan, one-room deep, with centre through-passage leading to rear wing; latter clearly a later addition to original fabric. Immediately over front door the end of a C16/C17 cross-beam with no partition marks on soffit, suggesting a complete C18 remodelling of original plan. Arrangement of cornice suggests first floor all one room in early C18. 3 storeys; 3-window range. Narrow 2-light centre window with 3-light ones on outside. Centre doorway has attached Roman Doric columns supporting entablature; round-arched opening with moulded imposts and archivolt; panelled reveals, the bottom panels flush; half-glazed door with cobweb fanlight. At either side, horizontally-channelled render; window to right has remains of triple sashes, the 2-paned side-sashes still surviving. Small, half-glazed C19 door to extreme right. Upper storeys flanked by raised quoins; windows have late C19 or early C20 wood casements, those in second storey with patterned coloured glass in transom-light. INTERIOR: ground-floor partitions removed. Centre beam chamfered with pyramid stops both ends. Former left-hand room has early C18 boxed cornices. Similar cornice on rear wall of first-floor room. 2 early C18 doors with raised-and-fielded one-fillet ovolo-moulded panels and strap-hinges. Remains of stair with thin square balusters, in rear wing.

Listing NGR: SS4540226542

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)