Survey Data
Reg No
14810012
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
House
Historical Use
RIC barracks
Date
1810 - 1850
Coordinates
201017, 215345
Date Recorded
06/08/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house with attic, built c.1830, with timber shopfront and return to rear. Formerly used as a barracks. Shop and house are now vacant. House fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. Random coursed limestone walls with patches of roughcast limestone render. Timber sash windows with modern concrete surrounds and tooled stone sills. Central window with brick infill to sides. Square-headed door opening with moulded concrete surround and timber panelled door with sidelights. Late nineteenth-century timber shopfront with central battened double doors and display windows.
Appraisal
This building with its intricate mix of features, scale and form make it a prominent addition to the streetscape. Its former use as a barracks and later as a shop gives an important social aspect to the structure. The removed render at the façade's central bay reveals a wider window opening that formerly mirrored the ground floor's panelled door and sidelights. To the rear of the building six-over-six pane timber sash windows remain.