Description

GEORGE STREET
1.
1577
(East Side)
No 17
SZ 5992 2/198

II GV

2.
Circa 1840. Corner site with Castle Street. Three storeys coursed
rubble with yellow brick dressings. George Street front: rendered
parapet with raised centre panel with supporting scrolls, rendered
cornice and frieze. Ground floor flanked by broad panelled piers,
cornice and blocking course and above, two yellow brick pilasters with
rendered Tuscan capitals flanking each side of first and second floor.
Two windows, second floor, one narrow set between right hand pair of
pilasters the other centred, both recessed later glazing bars, segmental
brick arches. First floor: narrow window to right as above, and centred
three light bay window, sash no glazing bars, plain strips, frieze and
cornice, boarded apron. Ground floor has blind window in frame to left.
Double panelled doors in centre, boarding to right. Plain frieze and
cornice running between piers below main ground floor cornice. Recessed
door in right hand pier of four moulded panels with rectangular fan-
light. Castle Street front: also of coursed rubble with yellow brick
dressings. High rendered parapet rendered string course. Five
windows: three blind on second floor, two blind first floor, recessed,
sash, glazing bars intact, block sills, flat brick arches. Ground
floor altered by service bay, later window inserted with yellow brick
dressings.

Nos 17 to 21 (odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ5940192793

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26528410

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)