Description

SS 3403 HOLSWORTHY CP THE SQUARE (East side)

16/40 Nos 12, 13, 14
(Stanhope Chambers)

II

Shops with accommodation above. Circa 1900. Italianate style. Red brick, ashlar
dressings, quoins, moulded brick entablature and modillion cornice, slate roof,
decorative ridge tiles. Rectangular block of 3 single-fronted shops, entrances on
right sides, separate staircases to upper floors. 3 storeys, 2:4 bays; upper storeys
paired semicircular-headed window openings with keystones divided by colonnette with
floral capital, outer capitals continued as decorative frieze linking the paired
windows, quoins to window openings, sashes without glazing bars, plain moulded string
course between first and second floors, decorative cast iron balcony to first floor,
rusticated pillars with decorative capitals, now painted, adjoining doorways right
with brackets above. Late C20 fascia obscuring modillion cornice. Two original shop
fronts right with moulded plinths, panelled soffits, glazed doors, the lefthand shop
front (No. 12) rebuilt late C20. Although the facade appears symmetrical the end 2
bays right are set closer together. The detailing is very similar to that of No 3
North Road (qv), and to other buildings in Holsworthy Road that have been altered.
(Photograph in NMR)

Listing NGR: SS3432903776

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457850

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