Description

TAMWORTH

SK2004SE KING STREET
670-1/9/86 (East side)
No.1

GV II

House, now shop and office. Early to mid C18 with early C20
and later alterations. Brick; tile roof with brick cross-axial
stack. L-plan; front facing Church Street. Georgian style. 2
storeys with attic; 3-window range. Top wooden cornice. Ground
floor has early C20 shop front, contemporary with that to No
66 Church Street (q.v.), with black glass fascia and entrance
to canted angle with overlight to glazed door, which has
decorative glazing bars in sunburst pattern. Entrance to King
Street to right. 1st floor has 3 windows with rubbed brick
segmental arches over 8-pane horned sashes; attic has 2 hipped
dormers. Shop front continues along King Street elevation;
small gabled wing has 2 rubbed brick segmental-arched window
heads over 3 inserted windows. INTERIOR: some chamfered beams
to ground floor. Building forms important element in Church
Street.

Listing NGR: SK2063304047

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584930

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record