Description

ST5515NE YEOVIL CP HIGH STREET (North side)

8/44 No 9

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GV II

Bank. Mid-late C19. Ashlar stone, roof hidden behind parapet, 3-storeys of 5-bays, in which 1 and 5 are narrow and set back from the remainder, in a classical commercial style. The ground floor in rusticated work above a plain stone plinth, with some pecked stone: the central doorway (with a modern infilling) and the 2-pairs of windows on either side have semi-circular arched heads in rusticated surrounds, the windows being plain sashes; the doorway has rusticated pilasters, bracket capitals and a segmental pediment: in the side bays, the left-hand has a blind arched panel, the right a door with semi-circular arched fanlight: at-first floor level a triple window centrally, the 2-outer plain sashes having arched heads, the middle having a lugged and heeled architrave, the assembly having a hood mould on console brackets, with central pediment; to bays 2 and 4, four-pane sashes in lugged and heeled architraves with flat hood over, and to bay 1 and 5 tall narrow semi-circular arched sashes; to second floor matching flanking windows without hoods to bay 2 and 4, with a plainer triple window centrally. String course to both sill levels, and rusticated quoins to projection; heavy bracketted cornice and shallow parapet. Interior not seen.

Listing NGR: ST5564115989

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