History

Left house of an earlier C19 pair of houses, notable as the printing works, circulating library and reading room first started in 1815 by John White (1762-1818), schoolmaster, who ran a Writing, Commercial & Mathematical School in King Street, perhaps here. The printing business of White & Watkins recorded in 1809 was a partnership of his wife Hannah and the Rev Joshua Watkins of Penuel Chapel, and from 1818-60 Hannah and her sons G.W. and I.W. White traded as White & Sons. William Rees, former tailor, ran bookshop and stationery business here from c1861 to the 1890s. In 1926 occupied by Mrs M. Thomas draper. In 2002 a gift shop.

Exterior

Terrace house with shop, a pair with No 49 to right. Both houses are of brick with painted roughcast cladding, 3-storeys and 2 bays. Slate eaves roofs with brick chimney to right and eaves cornice with paired modillions. Small paned sash windows to upper floors, replaced with C20 glazing on No 49, 12-pane sashes surviving on No 50. C20 full-width shopfronts. No 50 has attic dormer, fluted rainwater head and plaque to Hannah White. Rear of No 50 has close-eaved roof and one-window range of C20 windows.

Interior

Ground and first floors all altered.

Reasons for Listing

Included as one of a pair of early C19 stuccoed houses with some original detail surviving. Group value.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29504894

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)