History

Circa 1890.

Exterior

Group of 4 shops. Northern Renaissance style. Three storeys plus attic in steep Mansard roof. Grey Pennant stone with bathstone dressings. Relief band of swags between first and second floors. Nos 158-160 each have very large pedimented dormers with strapwork relief, and scrolls to sides; each dormer encloses 2 sash windows; two sash windows to second floors; on first floors, oriel windows; to each side of second floor windows, roundel with relief head; to each side of oriel windows, vertical relief panel. No 157 formerly identical has first floor oriel simplified as flat window, retaining relief details, and the stone work has been painted.

Reasons for Listing

Nos 158-160 included as well-detailed Late Victorian commercial development in Conservation Area No 157 included for group value.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29500263

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)