History

Built 1905, architect FEL Harris, of the Cooperative Wholesale Society of Manchester, with extensive stores to rear.

Exterior

Shop and cafe. A tall building of painted brick with the gable facade of a mansard slate roof, boarded eaves, brick end stack. Decorative black and white 3-storey frontage. Within gable a Venetian window with semicircular central light with keystone and columns, black and white painted voussoirs and quoins. Under a deep convex cornice are the 2 full height first floor bow windows, 3-light cross-framed with latticed upper casements, fronted by swept railed iron balconies. Deep double-fronted shop front with moulded cornice, slender corner mullions, divided upper lights, tiled plinth, wide end pilasters with tapering panels, boarded soffit, terrazzo step to recessed central doorway.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as an unusually decorative early C20 building and an integral part of this streetscape. Group value with other listed buildings in the street.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29503953

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy