Description

SE 7613-7713 CROWLE HIGH STREET
(west side)

16/49 Nos 1-11 (odd)

GV II

Terrace of houses and shops. Includes No 2 Cross Street. Mid C19 with late
C19 - early C20 shop fronts; C20 infilling to ground floor of No 5. Red
brick with Welsh slate roof. Double-depth plan; L-shaped, on corner site.
3 storeys. 8 bays to east (High Street) front, 4 bays to north (Cross
Street) front. Good Art Nouveau-style draper's shopfront to north-east
corner with main entrance to rounded angle. Single square column to angle,
with recessed part-glazed door (single segmental-headed pane over fielded
panel) beneath dentilled bowed lintel and plain overlight, flanked by shop
window with large full-height plate-glass panes (3 lights to Cross Street,
7 to High Street), the lights divided by slender wooden shafts with shaped
bases and capitals, and reeded upper sections carrying graceful interlaced
glazing bars. Frieze splayed-out above has original carved name, largely
covered by C20 name board, below moulded cornice and shallow hood. High
street entrance to left end has similar recessed plate-glass fielded-panel
door, dentilled bowed lintel and overlight. Right end of Cross Street shop
front has late C19 pilaster with ribbed panel below and ribbed console with
roundel ornament. High Street shop front has further, shop front adjoining
to left with similar pilasters, consoles and splayed frieze, recessed door
with single basket-arched pane over fielded panel, beneath moulded lintel
and ventilator, 2-light plate-glass shop window to right above fielded-panel
apron, with slender shafts and responds with carved Corinthian capitals and
foliate spandrels with pendant drops. High Street front to left has through
carriage entrance with rounded angles beneath timber lintel, and
unsympathetic C20 infilled ground-floor section to No 5 with board door and
pair of casements below boarded frieze of former shop front; shop front to
far left (No 11) with recessed C19 half-glazed panelled door and later
single-pane shop window in C19 surround with foliate consoles, frieze,
cornice and hood. Cross Street front: entrance adjoining shop front has
doorcase with consoles, cornice and hood, panelled door beneath moulded
lintel and plain overlight in reveal; round-headed passage entrance to far
right with board door beneath boarded panel and rubbed-brick arch; late C19
4-pane sash between entrances with painted stone sill and cambered wedge
lintel. Similar 4-pane sashes to first floor, original unequal 9-pane
sashes to second floor, apart from C20 casements to High Street bays 2 and 3
and to Cross Street second-floor right bay, all in original surrounds with
sills and cambered wedge lintels. Moulded wooden eaves board. Roof with
rounded hip to angle. Corniced axial stacks and end stack to south. Rear
has 12-pane first-floor sashes, 9-pane second-floor sashes. Interior of
draper's shop has cast-iron columns, staircase with moulded handrail, turned
balusters and newel post; not fully investigated.

Listing NGR: SE7726613096

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26364432

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