Description

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SW8244NE QUAY STREET 880-1/7/241 (North side) 19/06/73 Nos.3 AND 4

GV II

Town house, later 2 houses, now shops. c1730s, converted to 2 houses in early C19, converted to shops later C19. Painted brick front otherwise stone rubble some painted, some stuccoed, and slatehanging to left-hand gable; asbestos slate roof with 2 gabled dormers both with remains of C18 casements; brick end stacks. Double-depth plan on the left, single depth on the right with original stair hall behind right-hand room and service wing behind stair hall. 2 storeys plus attics; irregular 2-window front has early C19 tripartite hornless sashes with glazing bars and moulded wooden eaves cornice. Ground floor has wide passage doorway on the left, with plank doors with round-arched wicket in right-hand door; small mid C19 two-light shop window to centre, with pilasters, consoles and cornice; late C19 shop front, on the right, with pilasters, consoles and cornice to sloping fascia over slender mullions. Rear has 2 mid C18 sashes with thick glazing bars and there is a similar paired sash to stair hall, right-hand wall. INTERIOR: much of interest from the C18 but partly vandalised in 1988: fine-quality moulded and carved panelled plaster ceiling to part of original stair hall; fielded dado panelling to ground floor, front and left-hand chamber above rooms; several chimney-pieces and many panelled doors most with HL hinges.

Listing NGR: SW8277744822

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)