Description

1. 5299 LORD STREET (South Side) No 29 SD 3347 3/23

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2. Early C20. Ashlar. Slate mansard roof. Octagonal dome at corner with open octagonal lantern, itself with ogee dome and finial, all in copper. 2 storeys and attics. Moulded eaves cornice and balustrade with vase-shaped balusters. Bays either side of corner break forward slightly and are topped by shaped Baroque gables to windows in the dome. Ground floor otherwise has an order of blocked half-columns taking an entablature. 6 ranges of sashes to Church Street, and 2 to Lord Street: windows have moulded and blocked frames with triple keystones. 1 other ashlar dormer with paired sashes and swan's neck pediment. Round-arched door with blocked moulded architrave, framed by fluted Tuscan half-columns taking segmental pediment. Extension to east along Church Street. 3 attic dormers with moulded surrounds, keystones and segmental pediments. 1st floor has 1 mullion-and-transom cross window and 3 windows in a group, all with moulded surrounds, pulvinated frieze and linking moulded cornice. Ground floor has round-arched door with convex moulded rusticated jambs and voussoirs, and triple keystone framed by 2 Tuscan pilasters with segmental pediment, and 2 side-lights each with small pilasters and full entablature over. Group of 3 windows, side 2 canted, all with moulded frames and keystones, central 1 with pulvinated frieze and pediment over. Half columns set facing inwards in space created by the canted side windows. Moulded cornice above whole ground floor. Shaped gable at east end.

Listing NGR: SD3381147939

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