History

1874-5: By J Bacon Fowler, architect, for Messrs Strick & Bellingham. Victorian Gothic style.

Exterior

3 storey office block, snecked rubble facings with (badly eroded) freestone dressings. Steep slate roofs with large gable forward on left, parapets with finials, stems of chimneys to left and centre removed above sloping seatings. 3 slits to banded gable, wide relieving arch over cusped tripartite window, blind heads with disc ornament and punched spandrel rosettes; plain chamfered openings on right; cill bands. 7 windows to 1st floor, paired under relieving arches with shouldered heads, roll-moulded arches and detailing as before, sash windows with some glazing bars. Shouldered windows to ground floor with decayed colonnettes etc, 2 modern doors, rendered gable end.

Interior

Interior retains openwell staircase of Baltic oak, Gothic newels and ironwork railings.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29490014

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)