Description

MINSTER CHURCH STREET
TR 3064-3164
(North Side)
5/16
No. 15, The Public
Library
(Walsingham House)
GV II

Shop and house, now library and house. Mid C19. Red brick front with
yellow stock return elevations. Plain tiled roof. Unarchaeological Gothic
Revival style. Three storeys, gable end to street. Ground floor shop
front with red and purple glazed tiles, 2 plate glass sashes and plate
glass door to right. Canopy with balcony to first floor, supported on cast
iron piers with valancing. Large meat hooks suspended from canopy
(originally a pork butcher's shop). Light cast iron balcony. First and
second floors with pilaster quoin strips, plat band carried as capitals
over pilasters, supporting quadruple rebated arch in kneelered gable enclos-
ing arched plate glass window with small balcony on second floor, and larger
arched window with pierced quatrefoil head on first floor. The right
return with segmental sashes, plinth, plat bands and cornices and gabled
dormers. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: TR3108164341

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26518311

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)