Description

NELSON STREET 1. 1577 Nos 13 & 15 SZ 5992 2/281

II GV

2. Circa 1850 pair of houses. Three storeys and basement cement rendered, rusticated quoins separating houses and at corners on first and second floors. First floor string course, and moulded string on No 15 linking windows on each floor below level of heads. Parapet and cornice with dentils treated as machicolation. Inset bowed corner to No 15. One window each, superimposed three light bay windows to first and second floors, sash, later glazing bars, plain strips, shallow cornices, aprons boxed in except on No 15 first floor which retains traces of panelling. Ground floor window of No 13: recessed sash, glazing bars intact, block sill. Door to North, recessed, panelled and glazed with rectangular fanlight over; flight of six steps up to door. No 15 has tripartite segment headed window, sash, later glazing bars, moulded arch springing from level of string course. The windows in the bowed corner are set across curve, recessed casements of two lights with block sills. On the North side of No 15, one window first and second floor and on ground floor two segment headed windows, all recessed, sash, glazing bars intact, block sills. The lower string course is carried round from Nelson Street front. Central recessed door with narrow moulded panels, tall segmented arched fanlight over, moulded segmental arch. Two storeyed wing to West with parapet and coping, square headed windows, recessed, sash, glazing bars and block sills.

Nos 7 to 15 (odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ5940892651

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)