Description

1.
5180 HIGH STREET
(Butterwalk)
No 51
SX 8060 SW 1/67D 7.1.52.

II GV

2.
Late C16 or early C17 merchant's house of "deux corps de batiments" type, much altered,
with the former kitchen block and small court incorporated as part of the main house
in the late C19 when the ground floor was converted for use as a shop. In the C19
the house was used as a brush factory. The range at the rear was a candle factory.
Refronted mid C19. 3½ storeys. 1st floor with 5 bays. Welsh slate roof with ornamental
cresting. ½ hipped gable to street. Timber-framed, slate-hung front with jettied
attic. Moulded bargeboard with pineapple drops at eaves. 1st floor with pilasters
between window bays carrying fascia. Ground floor loggia over pavement carried on
granite Tuscan columns. 2nd floor and attic with architraved sash windows. Modern
shopfront. Masonry party walls, that on west side fronting former open passage
to No 53 and retaining blocked, 2 light window with moulded reveals amd mullion
and wrought iron stay bars. 1st floor room with remains of original square- headed
fireplace with moulded surround and relieving arch over; part of Elizabethan decorated
plaster ceiling with ribwork.

Listing NGR: SX8009260465

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26529459

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Berkshire (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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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)