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ST JAMES'S PARADE (north-east side),
No. 44, and No 9 Lower Borough Walls

(Formerly Listed as: ST JAMES'S PARADE (North East side) Nos 31-46 (consec) & No.47 (Talbot Public House))

12/06/50

GV
II
House, with shop. c1785, probably by John Palmer.

MATERIALS: limestone ashlar, double Roman tile roof.

PLAN: wide frontage house with trapezoidal plan having acute angled site boundary to right, mansard roof.

EXTERIOR: three storeys with attic and basement, two windows, all plain sash except paired and single twelve-pane dormers, above triple and paired light at first and second floors, each with blind light to pair, with moulded architraves. First floor also has moulded cornice drip, taken up as archivolt over central arched light to left, Palladian window also has brackets to sill. Centred to ground floor C20 glazed door on single step, in three-quarter column pedimented doorcase with enriched frieze having swags and urns in low relief. To each side C20 multi-pane display window. Small plinth, deep platband above ground floor, modillion cornice with blocking course and parapet, large stack to coped party division, left. Rear in painted ashlar.

INTERIOR: not inspected, but past inspection notes record a marble fireplace to the ground floor front room and a cornice.

HISTORY: St James's Parade, originally Thomas Street, was the centrepiece of a development from 1765 onwards by Richard Jones, Thomas Jelly and Henry Fisher who were granted liberty in September 1765 to 'pull down the Boro' walls next to the Ambry gardens in order to build new houses there'. The street was closed off with bollards at each end, and the houses fronted a broad paved walk in place of the road. The elevations, attributed to Thomas Jelly and John Palmer, show the influence of John Wood the Younger's work elsewhere, as in Rivers Street. The houses were mainly built in c.1768.

Following bomb damage in the area, extensive clearance and redevelopment has taken place. St James's Parade, after an uncertain period, was reprieved. This particular house was a rather later development in this 1760s street.

Listing NGR: ST7495564588

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673879

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas