Survey Data
Reg No
20515135
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
Office
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1870 - 1880
Coordinates
167575, 71805
Date Recorded
13/06/1994
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay two-storey building, c. 1875, with triple arcaded and decorated polychromatic brickwork facade; restored, c. 1925; retail unit to ground floor and offices to upper floors. Roof not visible for inspection, parapet with elaborate eaves cornice having limestone string course. Polychromatic brickwork to upper façade. Heavily articulated openings to first floor having limestone pilasters with stiff leaf capitals, moulded archivolts and decorative pediments. Windows to first floor are timber sliding sash one over one, with extended moulded cills and cast iron guardrail. Modified and refenestrated ground floor with later timber shopfront, c. 1990. Separate square headed entrance opening to upper floors, having timber panelled door with plain overlight.
Appraisal
Highly distinctive late nineteenth century building. Significant in its own right, both for its style and decorative use of contrasting materials, and also to the streetscape and general character of this part of the city.