Description

CHACEWATER HIGH STREET (south side) Chacewater
SW 74 SW
4/74 Nos 1 - 5 (consecutive)
30.5.67
GV II
Terrace with shopfront, now house. Early/mid C19. Killas rubble walls with cambered
brick arches with projecting keystones over most openings slate-hung first floor to
right-hand end. Asbestos slate roofs with brick gable and axial chimneys hipped to
right. Projecting eaves with shaped wooden brackets. Mostly 1-room double depth
plans. 2 storeys. Regular 9-window north street front. Nos 1, 2 and 3, left have
4-paned horned sashes. Nos 4 and 5 have original 12-pane hornless sashes with wider
central lights. Entrances to left or right all with C20 doors. Near centre, No.2
has wooden shopfront, the shop window now blocked and with sash window inserted,
flanked by 2 pilastered doorways with traceried fanlights, the right-hand doorway
wider and divided into 2 entrances. An entablature continues over the whole feature.
Single storey 1-room addition with tapered room under flat lead roof to far right on
street corner was further shop, now with C20 window. Slatehanging over with original
12-pane hornless sash.
Interiors not inspected.
Chacewater is notable for the survival of many C19 shopfronts, and this shopfront,
although altered, is an interesting example.

Listing NGR: SW7495544383

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433722

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)