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SJ9223SW GREENGATE STREET 590-1/10/45 (West side) 16/01/51 Nos.39, 39A AND 40 (Formerly Listed as: GREENGATE STREET (West side) Nos.39 AND 40)

GV II

Two houses, now shop and office. Mid C18 with early C19 and later alterations. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof with coped gable and brick end and cross-axial stack. Early Georgian style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 9-window range. Platt band over ground floor and top cornice; quoins. 2 early C20 shopfronts; round-headed entrance to right end has early C19 doorcase with archivolt, pilaster strips, frieze and pediment; fanlight over 6-panel door. 1st floor has windows with rubbed brick flat arches and ashlar keys over 9/6-pane sashes in moulded frames to 5 windows to left, 4 windows to right have 2-panel horned sashes; 3rd window from each end has eared and shouldered architrave with key and moulded sill on blocks; 4 pedimented dormers with small-paned casements. 2 rainwater heads with cherubs in round arches, and square downspouts to 1st floor only. Rear has gabled wing and early C19 gabled range to left, with 2 gables to end with windows in architraves, friezes and pediments; return has windows with small-paned casements with intersecting glazing bars. INTERIOR: 1820s detailing; stair with slender balusters and wreathed handrail; room to rear with rich plaster cornice and marble fireplace; 2 lamp brackets to 1st floor corridor; left end has early C18 open well stair to 1st floor up, with spiral balusters, moulded and ramped handrail, cut string with moulded tread ends and bolection-moulded dado panelling; 3 contemporary 6-fielded-panel doors. Ground floor originally had 2 entrances with eared architraves and signs remain of keys to windows. (County Planning Department Photographic Collection).

Listing NGR: SJ9222823120

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