Description

1.
5180 HIGH STREET
(South Side)
No 18
SX 8060 1/53 25.3.69.

II GV

2.
Later C16 or early C17 merchant's house of "deux corps de batimnts" type, remodelled
and refronted early C19. 3 storeys. 1 window. The separate kitchen block and
gallery have been demolished; the kitchen is recorded as having a frieze decorated
with carved wooden busts. Hipped Welsh slate roof with rendered stack. Plastered,
timber-framed front with rusticated pilaster strips on quoins masking masonry party
walls. Jettied 2nd floor carried at west end by moulded granite corbel. 2nd floor
with architraved sash window with glazing bars, 1st floor with 3 lights, segmental
bowed sash window with glazing bars. Wooden shopfront with pilasters carrying entablature;
modern shop window and doorway. Architraved house doorway with raised and fielded
6 panel door approached by steps; rectangular fanlight with margin lights. Interior
altered, with early C19 staircase and chimneypieces.A rental of 1675 refers to Dr
Richard Burthogge,..."for pillars before his house". (M. Laithwaite).

Listing NGR: SX8020460430

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26529580

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Recommended Books

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  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)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)