Survey Data
Reg No
50910219
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Shop/retail outlet
In Use As
Office
Date
1930 - 1940
Coordinates
315659, 233961
Date Recorded
16/11/2015
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay four-storey commercial building, built c. 1935 as south end of block of five similarly detailed buildings, having square-headed recessed double-height bays to middle floors, and recent granite-clad shopfront to ground floor. Full-height flat-roof return to rear (east). Pitched roof to west, abutted by flat roof of return and concealed by brick parapet with squared recessed panels, with moulded brick and lead-lined cornice. North end of parapet topped with carved sandstone urn finial. Red brick chimneystack to south party wall. Parapet gutters with recessed cast-iron box-downpipe (replacement) to north end. Machine-made red brick walling, laid in Flemish bond, with projecting horizontally channelled brick piers to outer ends, rising to moulded brick stringcourses over second and third floor windows (continuing across neighbouring building to north). Square-headed window openings, with brick voussoirs, brick sills to top two floors and masonry to first floor, with original one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with ogee and profiled horns, and largely replacement glass. Recent shopfront has original moulded masonry cornice above.
Appraisal
This building is part of a terrace of red brick commercial units, built c. 1935, and attributed to the designs of architect George L. O'Connor. Despite some fabric alterations the buildings survives well, particularly across the upper floors. It forms part of a coherent group that dominates this stretch of the street and contributes to the rich fabric of historic commercial buildings defining much of the streetscape character within this architectural conservation area.