Survey Data
Reg No
22312043
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
House
Date
1860 - 1900
Coordinates
212659, 158655
Date Recorded
22/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced three-bay three-storey house with integral carriage arch, built c.1880, now also in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, decorative render parapet and finials. Rendered walls with decorative render eaves course and fluted render pilasters to upper floors. Square-headed one-over-one pane timber sash windows with render label-mouldings and limestone sills. Depressed-arch carriage arch with chamfered corners. Shopfront comprises carved timber brackets and render pilasters flanking replacement door and replacement bow window with replacement fascia over.
Appraisal
This building is the middle one of a row of three decorative buildings on Liberty Square. It has a distinctive spiky parapet that faces the viewer entering the square from the south. Its label-mouldings to the window openings and the retention of timber sash windows considerably enhance the building's facade, and the former carriage arch adds visual and functional interest.