Description

CANNON STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B2 No 43 (Newton Chambers) and Nos 44 and 45 SP 0686 NE 33/11 21.1.70 II GV 2. Includes Nos 41, 42, 42A New Street. Circa 1899 by Essex, Goodman and Nicol. Pink terracotta; slate roof. Four storeys plus attic; 5 bays, the fifth containing the entrance and wider than the others plus the corner with its little cupola. Ground floor with modern shop fronts and the entrance with fanlight with 4 glazed lights. First floor with 4 tripartite windows beneath broad segmental arches. These and the arch over the entrance with pretty, detached scrolly members and ball flower ornament and a decorated stringcourse above. Second and third floors each with 4 tripartite windows with ause-de-panier arches to the lights and pretty, detached scrolly members. They are linked vertically by baluster-like shafts left and right. In the fifth bay second and third floors each have a 4-light transomed window with ause-de-panier arches to the lights. They are treated together as a very shallow bay window surmounted by a round window. Moulded eaves cornice. Attic with 4 canted bay windows, terracotta faced but timber sided. The long return to New Street (where are the entrances to Nos 41, 42 and 42A New Street) treated similarly, but the centre gabled and with the second and third floors with canted bay windows and 2-light rather then tripartite windows. Once housed the Kardomah Cafe, some of whose interior is said to remain behind the present fittings.

Listing NGR: SP0698086830

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