Survey Data
Reg No
12506251
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
Bank/financial institution
Date
1880 - 1900
Coordinates
247112, 198349
Date Recorded
29/08/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced four-bay two-storey former house, built c. 1890, with shopfront inserted c. 1910, in use as bank and commercial premises. Pitched artificial slate roof, cement ridge tiles, two rendered chimneystacks with clay pots. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted ruled-and-lined rendered walling, pebbledash render to east gable and return. Square-headed window openings and painted stone sills with uPVC windows. Symmetrical timber shopfront to three bays with pair of large fixed-pane display windows on rendered stall risers with leaded coloured glass overlights. Inset square-headed door opening with splayed display windows, as per shopfront with replacement timber glazed door, all flanked by moulded pilasters and foliate console brackets with gablets and glazed fascia with gilt lettering and cornice over. Square-headed door opening to west bay with render architrave surround, replacement timber paneled door, rectangular overlight, opening onto limestone step.
Appraisal
A substantial late-Victorian former shop, enlivened by a fine example of an early twentieth-century shopfront, with decorative features of architectural quality. It is an important component in the nineteenth-century urban fabric of Main Street and adds to the special character of the historic town core.