Description

1. 5409 WEST STREET (North-East Side) No 32 (formerly listed as No 40) SU 0931 5/55 4.8.51. II GV

2. Circa 1820. Left hand part 3 storeys, right hand part 2 storeys, painted stucco, framed by rusticated quoins. Flat eaves to slate roof, hipped over left hand part. Right hand part of 4 bays, all windows glazing bar sashes with moulded architraves and Venetian shutters. 6-panelled door to left (lower panels reeded), good wrought-iron knocker of 2 dolphins and ball, plain arched fanlight, panelled reveals with Venetian shutters folding back into them; doorcase of panelled pilasters, plain necking, broken dentil cornice and open pediment. Left hand part: 2 bays with similar treatment to windows, ground floor left blind. Trefoil headed area railings with pointed dog-rails, scrolls to cast-iron gatepiers and over gates. Interior: Front passage and staircase hall have panelled dado with paired cusped Gothic blind arch panels (repeated in miniature in cupboard below stairs). 2 rooms on ground floor of right hand part incorporate fragments of a 4 poster bed from Island House (qv Min ster St) - oak, Jacobean, now dresser type fireplaces and shelves.

Listing NGR: SU0954631304

External Links

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