Description

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SK 5804
7/119

HIGHCROSS STREET (east side)
No 59

(Formerly listed as Nos 59 and 59 1/2, HIGH CROSS STREET, previously listed as No 59)

5.1.50

II
Large town house. Late C18. Red brick; slate roof. Central entrance hall with stairs to rear; service area to left contained within main range and converted into a separate dwelling in early-mid C19. Three storeys.

Exterior: five-window range, regular, originally symmetrical. Moulded eaves cornice; plat band. All windows under wedge brick arches; twelve-pane hornless sashes to first floor; Nine-pane to second floor. Much altered shop front (at time of survey). Ground floor rendered with two renewed twelve-pane sash windows to right of central doorway with bricked-in side panels under large semi-circular traceried fanlight. Left return with unhorned sash windows; slightly projecting stepped porch, the doorway moulded with plain glazed fanlight; six-panel door. Right hand wall rebuilt.

Interior: (partly inspected) with dog-leg stair (moulded tread ends, stick balusters and turned newels); deeply chamfered ceiling beams; some cornices and a simple marble fireplace surround to first floor. Gypsum floor to attic.

Listing NGR: SK5834604643

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26336050

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)