Survey Data
Reg No
20512766
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Restaurant
Date
1840 - 1850
Coordinates
167446, 71903
Date Recorded
07/11/1995
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced five-bay two-storey former Methodist church, built c. 1845, with projecting end bays. Now in use as retail outlets. Rendered walls with double-height pilasters flanking central bays, and having rendered parapet and moulded cornice. Timber sash windows to first floor, set in rounded-openings with moulded render archivolts and imposts, and flanked by square-headed openings. Replacement fixed windows and glazed doors to ground floor.
Appraisal
This former church makes a notable and positive contribution to the streetscape, due to the scale and form of the building. It is an interesting addition to this formerly primarily industrial area. Built on the site of a Huguenot Church, it may retain some eighteenth-century fabric. Though now altered to the ground floor, this building is of apparent architectural form and design, and is enhanced by the retention of many interesting features and materials, such as the timber sash windows and render detail.