History

Second-quarter C19 house and shop re-fronted in the late C19 when it acquired its present brick facade.

Exterior

Three-storey building of limestone rubble construction with yellow brick gabled facade and sandstone quoins; slate roof with simple bargeboards to front and NW gables. The facade retains part of its late C19 shopfront, with pedimented entrance to the R and the pediment of a former, similar entrance surviving to the L; C20 part-glazed door to the former, with rectangular overlight. Panelled pilasters with plain angled capitals support a continuous moulded cornice with the fascia recessed below. Later part-glazed entrance recessed between plain-glazed shop windows with panelled dado section. The first and second floors are symmetrical, with a 2-storey canted wooden bay window to the centre and narrow flanking sashes to the outer bays of each floor; plain sashes throughout, the latter with cambered heads.

The L return, facing NW, is partly gabled. This has plain late C19 sashes to the ground floor with 2 entrances to the left-hand section, both with segmental heads, that to the far L a large access arch. Earlier C19 sashes to the upper floors of the right-hand section, 12-pane and 6-pane respectively, the former unhorned. Beyond this are windows on 3 floors with plain sashes and brown brick surrounds; that to the ground floor is blocked.

Interior

The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special interest as a first-half C19 building with later C19 facade retaining good original external character, including late C19 shop front, in a central location within the town.

Group value with other listed items in Crown Square and Back Row.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29500718

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments