Description

TAMWORTH

SK2004SE GEORGE STREET
670-1/7/71 (North side)
No.37

GV II

Shop. Dated 1898, but some C18 brickwork to returns. Brick
with buff terracotta dressings; tile roof with brick
cross-axial stack. Right-angle plan. Northern Renaissance
style. 3 storeys; 2-window range. 1st floor sill and lintel
courses, 2nd floor sill course and coped shaped gable. Ground
floor has banded piers, bracketed entablature and end finials
to inserted C20 shop front. 1st floor has canted oriels with
transomed windows of 1:2:1-segmental-headed lights, cartouches
to scrolled bases and weathered heads in rubbed brick
trefoil-headed recesses. 2nd floor has 3-light windows with
king mullions flanking panel with dated cartouche, all under
cornice with central pediment under elliptical-headed recess
with some terracotta voussoirs and pinnacle. Stack has some
terracotta quoins. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SK2088604006

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26491535

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