Survey Data
Reg No
40310005
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Social
Previous Name
Sizzling Bites
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
Restaurant
Date
1850 - 1870
Coordinates
278568, 295835
Date Recorded
16/07/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced four-bay three-storey townhouse, built c.1860, with shopfront to ground floor. Now in use as restaurant. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks with bands of yellow brick to party walls, cast-iron rainwater goods, gutter resting on paired brackets. Ruled-and-lined rendered walls with raised stucco quoins. Paired segmental-headed window openings to first and second floors with stone sills and one-over-one timber sliding sash windows. Shopfront to ground floor comprising door opening flanked by display windows with decorative pilasters, and carved corbels supporting fascia and profiled cornice. Rendered stall risers to display windows, replacement timber panelled doors with overlight. Door at north end leading to residential upper floors, also with decorative pilasters and carved corbels. Timber panelled door with overlight having margin panes.
Appraisal
A substantial and well-ordered Victorian townhouse with an elaborate shopfront. The joinery of the shopfront and the paired arrangement of the windows distinguish the building in the largely eighteenth century street. It retains its historic fabric and features, including the carefully detailed brick chimneystack, eaves and quoin detailing, and timber sliding sash windows. The height of the building complements the former civic and institutional centre of the town.