Survey Data
Reg No
20823090
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1770 - 1790
Coordinates
210484, 77887
Date Recorded
22/03/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Attached four-bay three-storey house, built c. 1780, with late nineteenth century shopfront inserted to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Shopfront comprising pair of bipartite display windows having central mullions and colonettes with carved capitals and spandrals, flanking pair of recessed timber panelled double leaf doors with geometric tiled threshold. Timber panelled and glazed door with round-headed side light, giving access to upper floors. Full width name fascia with dentillated moulded entablature and canopy over ground floor openings.
Appraisal
An interesting eighteenth century house, whose date is apparent from its steep roof, substantial chimneystacks and proportions. Though altered at ground floor level by the insertion of a full width shopfront, this late nineteenth century intervention is of significant heritage value. Its design and quality of craftsmanship are excellent, and it contrast with the more recently inserted shopfronts which are common place throughout the town.