History

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

Exterior

Large High Victorian Gothic pair of houses. Three storeys and basement with paired full height bays to centre and entrance bays to outer ends. Snecked rubble with freestone dressings and weathered stringcourses, some brick to gables and chimney stacks (centre and ends). Slate roofs; twin gables rise over splayed bays which also have traceried gablets, bracket eaves. Four windows wide, paired and single pointed lights with stone shafts, cusping, carved capitals etc, sash windows. Pointed entrance archways up parapetted stairs, moulded arches on foliage corbels, recessed Gothic screens with side lights to doors, elaborate plasterwork to porches.

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 Q29491968

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)