Description

ST THOMAS'S STREET
1.
1577
(West Side)
No 5
(The Anchorage)
SZ 5992 3/295

II GV

2.
Circa 1800 but with circa 1840/50 refacing and alterations. Three storeys
gault brick. Low pitch hipped slate roofs, eaves concealed by rendered
cornice and blocking course. Bands between storeys. Three windows, sash,
some with glazing bars intact, moulded flush wood frames and rendered
architrave surrounds added at time of rehandling, block sills. Later bay
window of three lights added to ground floor South. Central Doric porch,
columns to front, pilasters to wall. Recessed panelled and glazed door,
rectangular fanlight. Two storeyed wing to South of one window has a
small stone rubble walled yard with brick dressings and rendered cornice
and coping. Doorway to street flanked by banded brick piers with a
gauged brick arch. The North side of the yard has a small lean-to with a
segment headed sash window with glazing bars in the outer wall, which
is of brick.
North garden front: has bands and cornice carried round from entrance front.
Three windows and superimposed early type of three light bay windows to
East on ground and first floors, sashes with glazing bars, fluted pilasters,
bracketed cornice. Later C19 brick bay ground floor West of three
windows, segmental gauged brick arches.

Nos 2 to 5 (consec) form a group.
Also forms a group with No 6 St James's Street.

Listing NGR: SZ5911392660

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26516599

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)