History

Circa 1876, by W D Blessley, architect. Restored 1987-89 by Wigley Fox Partnership.

Exterior

Large Gothic semi-detached pair of houses, now modernised as offices. Three storeys, and basement. Snecked Pennant rubble with freestone dressings and weathered stringcourses. Hipped slate roofs, half hipped over pointed tripartite windows in central bays, gable heads to outer bays. Solid eaves band crossing top storey window heads with oculi over. Central chimney with polygonal stacks. Sash glazing set in mullioned windows. Four windows wide; paired splayed bays to centre stop at first floor. Broad band course between ground and first floor. Ground floor has shouldered-arched windows. Gothic-arched entrances in outer ground floor bays up parapetted stairs; flanking shafts with carved capitals.
End elevations have projecting cut down chimney stacks.

Reasons for Listing

Part of a group of well-preserved High Victorian middle-class houses in city centre.
Group value with adjacent listed buildings.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29491967

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments