Description

SU 6376 PANGBOURNE THE SQUARE
(east side)

6/7 Nos. 2 And 3 (formerly
listed as Lloyds Bank,
Pangbourne Pharmacy, No.2
Midland Bank, Kennet
Vintner Studio, R.S.
Davies, Stanley Green)
7.12.71

G.V. II

Includes No.1 Reading Road and Nos. 2,4,6,8 and 10 Whitchurch Road.
Row of 8 shops. Circa 1900, by Leonard Stokes in a free neo-Georgian style. Grey
brick with red dressings. 2 large tile hung gables and tile roof, hipped to
south-west. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic. Deep eaves and 4 stacks. One dormer
to south with glazing bar sash, and one to west. 4 dormers to north-west with
2-light casements, and large slightly projecting gabled semi dormer between
first and second from north with semi circular window. West front: large
projecting gable off-centre to right with first floor jetted on brackets;
two paired attic glazing bar sashes; first floor canted bay with glazing bar
sashes, 2 set back flanking glazing bar sashes, and pulvinated frieze; 3
central ground floor windows separated by Tuscan pilasters, two 4-panelled
doors set back to left, and 5-panelled door set back to right with oval
fanlight. First floor glazing bar sash to right and 2 glazing bar sashes
on corner to right with pulvinated frieze. Five first floor 4-light casements
to left. Ground floor plate glass shop window to right and angled half glazed door
in right-hand corner. Vehicular entrance to left, and five C20 shop fronts
to left set back behind colonnade with timber clad square piers. South front:
large projecting gable as west front but with 3 ground floor windows to right
separated by pilasters and two 2-panelled doors to left with rectangular overlight.
2 first floor glazing bar sashes on corner to left with pulvinated frieze:
Ground floor plate glass window to left. B.0.E, Berkshire, p.192; Berkshire
Architectural Guide, BetJeman and Piper, Murray, 1949, p.137.

Listing NGR: SU6356276546

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26509315

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