Description

WALCOT STREET
656-1/31/1804 (East side)
No.108
12/05/72

GV II

House, now architectural salvage warehouse. c1770. Formerly with long front garden, now built over with an early C20 single storey shop extension by Silcock and Reay for Hayward and Wooster.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, steep double pitched slate mansard roof with paired dormers and moulded stacks with hand-thrown chimney pots to left.
PLAN: Double depth plan.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, two bay front. Coped parapet slightly returned; modillion cornices to front and rear. Six/six-pane sash windows. Edwardian Cotswold Baroque shop to front: eight-light mullioned window incorporating doors beneath pediment to front with name `HAYWARD AND WOOSTER' inscribed in raised capitals between paterae; balustraded parapet runs around whole extension; four-light side window to south; set-back continuation to south with panelled door set within richly moulded architrave with `OFFICE' inscribed over door; plaque above. Two-light mullioned window to side of office. Rear of main house has coved string course over first floor, first floor sill band, one tripartite window to each floor, C20 door right of ground floor and C20 shop to basement. Steeply sloping site: substantial basement and ancillary buildings to rear contemporaneous with shop front to street.
INTERIOR: Not inspected above ground floor: although knocked through, these rooms retain a modillion plaster cornice to front room and a reeded cornice and window architrave to rear room. Wooden staircase with urn and column rails, three per tread, and column newels.
HISTORY: Bronze Bath plaque records that the poet Robert Southey (1774-1843), lived here at some time in his aunt Mrs Tyler's house.

Listing NGR: ST7510565371

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674551

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