Description

1. 1042 HIGH STREET (West Side)

No 15 SU 0061 4/52 9.4.54.

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2. Set at the junction of the High Street and St John's Street, an effective terminal feature to Long Street qv, down which it faces. Mid Cl9. 2 storeys, attic and basement. Bath stone, on projecting splayed plinth. Moulded string over ground and lst floor windows. Parapet with moulded coping. Central curved and ogee-headed gable with parapet coping carried round, and with central carved and pierced finial. Small central attic casement, moulded stone surround with head of 2 opposing inverted segments, central mullion and dividing arches forming 3 lights. Three 9-light large moulded stone mullioned and transomed casements on lst floor. 2 similar on ground floor, and central double doors each of 2 splayed panels in plain arched surround with moulded band at springing, and with imposed porch of engaged Doric columns supporting plain frieze and cornice lining with lst floor string. Carved scroll keystone to arch. Over each outer window the parapet has panel of pierced quatrefoil type, with cresting over of central cut circle crowned with pierced finial, and with cut stone side scrolls and secondary finials. Main door approached by double flight of 5 steps and bridge over area, with pierced stone balustrading.

Listing NGR: SU0049661338

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