Description

1.
5104
SP 0687 SE
29/20
21.1.70

EDMUND STREET
(north-west side)
City Centre B3
Nos 136 and 138
(formerly listed as No 36)

II
GV

2.
Circa 1880, in a Venetian Gothic style. Brick and terracotta. Four storeys;
5 bays. Ground floor articulated and now painted, the outer arched entrances
slightly broader and taller than the 3 centre arches and having an enriched
sexfoil in the tympana. The entrance to No 138 with a perhaps later gable
over it. The outer bays have trefoil-headed sash windows, on the first floor
beneath pointed arches with floral hoodstops and, on the 2nd floor, beneath
a gable. The 3 inner bays each have 2 sash windows within a single tall lancet
with hoodmould with floral hoodstops. In the spandrels diaper work. Third
floor with a row of 12 narrow windows with bar tracery. Between them rise
narrow brackets for the richly decorated cornice.

Listing NGR: SP0680987135

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26339212

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)