Survey Data
Reg No
22101002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
Historical Use
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1860 - 1900
Coordinates
188621, 147858
Date Recorded
25/05/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Detached pair of two-bay and three-bay two-storey houses with former shopfronts to ground floors, built c.1880, now disused, with single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods and brick chimneystacks. Painted smooth rendered walls and render quoins. Shopfronts comprise timber battened doors, having over-light to eastern house, with attached three-and four-light timber display windows with rendered stall risers, western framed by painted border and eastern having fluted render pilasters with render shell motifs to capitals, render consoles and cornice with render fascia having render hand motifs. Painted render lettering to fascia. Square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills, having timber sliding sash two-over-two pane windows to western house and one-over-one pane window to eastern. Disused petrol pumps and wrought-iron side gates to site.
Appraisal
Though now derelict, these houses and shopfronts retain much of their original character articulated in the render lettering and cornices to the fascia and still have their timber sliding sash windows. The moulded render hand and shell motifs are visible on other buildings in the town and may point to a single craftsman working locally.