Description

UNION STREET
1.
1577
(West Side)
No 53
SZ 5992 2/356

II GV

2.
Circa 1850. Corner site with Yelf's Road. Three storeys faced with
stone coursed in imitation of brick. Rendered ground floor with heavy
banded rustication, on plinth. Rendered rusticated quoins to sides and
flanking inset curved corner. Rendered parapet with coping and panels
of balusters separated by piers. Heavy cornice and frieze. Ground
floor cornice. Superimposed flat fronted bow windows on first and second
floors, to Union Street, of three lights each, sash, no glazing bars,
panelled aprons, dentil cornice to second floor one. Second floor windows
on corner and to Yelf's Road, recessed, sash, later glazing bars, in
rendered architrave surrounds. First floor windows are similar, though
taller, and have addition of segmental pediments. First floor corner
window has small bowed cast iron balcony on stone brackets. Original
round headed doorway and window of shop to Union Street. Keystone over
door, block sill to window, plate glass. Ground floor windows to Yelf's
Road large and segment headed with keystones, moulded sills. Two
storey wing continues front along Yelf's Road, similar treatment of facade
but with narrow round headed windows on first floor with Keystones, linked
at the springing of the arches by a string course. The main cornice has a
dentil band. Brick extension of two bays with rendered dressings to West.

Nos 44 to 53 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ5918892686

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26563597

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)