Description

1. CHURCH STREET

5130 Nos 5 and 6 SU 9676 NE 3/10 4.1.50. II* GV 2. Circa 1670, front to house dated 1640. 3 storeys and attic, brick (ground floor colour washed), string at 1st floor level and moulded string over 1st floor windows, heavy moulded and modillioned eaves cornice, old tile roof. A symmetrical composition consisting of the main building and flanking narrow rectangular bays over entrances. The main building has one hipped dormer window to the left hand and one modern dormer to the right hand, 4 windows on the upper floors, the 1st floor left hand windows have heavy early C18 sashes. No 5 has a late C18 shop on the ground floor consisting of half glazed door to the left hand and a small bow window to the right hand on a cut bracket under and plain frieze and small cornice. No 6 has 2 windows on the ground floor. The flanking bays timber framed and roughcast, project about 4ft and are 2 storeys high (1st and 2nd floors) supported on heavy elaborately carved console brackets with a moulded beam round the soffit. The main cornice is carried round and each has a small hipped old tile roof. Each bay has one narrow window on 2nd floor, one tall narrow window on 1st floor. Windows have architraves with enriched mouldings. No 5 has a 6 panelled door, the upper panels glazed and a 4-pane rectangular fanlight over. The door is flanked by panelled pilasters supporting the console brackets. No 6 has an 8-panelled door and 4-paned fanlight over. The pilasters supporting thebrackets and the soffit beams have enriched mouldings. The building is U-shaped on plan with 2 gabled wings facing St Albans Street, timber framed and plastered. Central chimney stack in main roof and irregular C18 windows facing inward on the wings. Nos 4 to 7 consec).The Church Rooms, Nos 12 and 13 and the cobble sets in Church Street form a group.

Listing NGR: SU9686476857

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)