Description

UNION STREET
1.
1577
(West Side)
No 60
SZ 5992 2/358

II GV

2.
Dated 1865. Italimnate with Osborne tower. Four storeys yellow brick
flanked by rendered pilaster strips with bands between storeys carried
over. The tower is slightly recessed to North. Heavy rendered modil-
lion main cornice, the blocking course, crowned by the unusual feature
of four three-quarter size neo-antique statues on pedestals. Three
windows to main block. Ornate superimposed canted bays of three lights
on first and second floors to left and rights, panelled aprons, sashes,
no glazing bars, plain surrounds, but with carved modillions, with
square panels between, to first floor cornices and on second floor roundels
and fluted triglyphs in friezes, the fretted cornices supported on
shaped brackets to side with pendant finials, hipped leaded roofs. Third
floor windows are recessed, sash, no glazing bars, in rendered architrave
surrounds. The central first floor window is round headed set in architrave
surround with floral panels in spandrels, pediment above. The tower
has a stuccoed ground floor with banded rustication. On the first floor
is a narrow four light oriel with panelled apron, cornice and with a
tall pointed scalloped slate roof with crowning finial. The second floor
has a blind window in architrave surround. On the third floor paired
round headed lights, chamfered pilaster dividing, architraves over, on
imposts, with Keystones. The tower has an extra stuccoed storey with
leaded hipped roof and bracketed eaves. To the front sides and rear,
windows of paired round headed lights similar to third floor window but
with colonette dividing lights. The ground floor of main block has a
modern shop front.

The Royal Victoria Arcade and Nos 58 to 62 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ5922992770

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26532123

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
• 
  For the Record