Description

The following building shall be included:
CORPORATION STREET
1.
5104
SE 0786
(west side)
34/8 Nos 1-7 (odd)
II GV
2.
Commercial building, c.1880. Limestone ashlar with slate mansard roof. Free
style composition with mixture of Hispanic/Elizabethan details. 5 storeys and
attic; symmetrical 5-window range. Moulded cornice over C20 shop fronts with
bracketed broken-pedimented central doorway to panelled door set in semi-
circular arched architrave; festooned swan-necked pediment set above richly-
carved panel to tympanum. Festoons flank bracketed architrave to central pro-
jecting first-floor window which has carved festoons to frieze beneath balus-
traded parapet of second-floor window which has columns with foliate capitals
to swan-necked pediment. First and second floor has rounded projecting bay
windows with carved detail to pediments and stone-transomed windows with fluted
Ionic pilasters to broad mullions. Third-floor stone-mullioned and transomed
cross windows have bracketed swan-necked flanking central triangular pediments;
cross windows beneath richly-carved bracketed cornice. Bracketed pediments to
dormer windows flanking central dormer with segmental-pedimented tablet set in
broken pediment. A striking early example of Free Style architecture.

Listing NGR: SP0706786813

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26285938

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)