History

C20 and not shown in its present form on the 1913 Ordnance Survey. Previously a bank and with an entrance on the L side (now a window) with 'bank' in raised letters in the pediment. The present shop front is an alteration of 1994.

Exterior

A Renaissance-influenced shop and house of 3 storeys and 2 bays. The lower storey is light grey rock-faced random stone with freestone dressings. The middle and upper storeys are cream-painted pebble-dash with smooth-rendered quoin strips, architraves and upper storey sill band. The slate roof has end stacks. The wide central entrance is under a pediment, with recessed double folding half-glazed panel doors. It is flanked by pedimented cross windows. A freestone entablature has modern shop lettering, below a corbelled moulded cornice.

Middle and upper storeys have tripartite 9-pane hornless sash windows. In the L gable end, facing Crown Lane, is a cross window in the lower storey similar to the front.

Behind is a gabled wing of pebble-dash with smooth rendered quoin strips, banding and architraves. Facing Crown Lane is a boarded door on the L side. The 1st and 2nd floors have 2 windows each, all replacements in earlier openings except for a 9-pane hornless sash window upper R.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for group value within this important street.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29507970

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (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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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)