Survey Data
Reg No
50910303
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Previous Name
Colette Modes
Original Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1920 - 1930
Coordinates
315629, 233856
Date Recorded
22/11/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Attached two-bay four-storey gabled commercial building, built 1922-7, with recent shopfront to front elevation. Pitched slate roof. Gabled parapet with carved granite coping and pediment, over red brick walls laid in English garden wall bond, having carved granite stringcourse to first floor and moulded brick panels to middle floors. Square-headed window openings, double opening to first floor with continuous granite sill and panelled pilaster between, granite sills to second floor, and carved granite sill course to top floor, all with replacement uPVC windows. Recent stone-clad shopfront with deep fascia to ground floor.
Appraisal
This street was subject to a significant phase of rebuilding in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is now dominated by modest Italianate brick retail and office buildings. A high level of ornamentation is evident on this building, with a curved pedimented gable and a wide variety of materials used, including red brick, limestone and granite, providing subtle textural and tonal variation across the facade.