Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Date of Designation
10/04/1989
Date of Amendment
10/04/1989
Name of Property
5 New Street
Location
Near the junction with Smithfield Street. Set into the slope.
History
Part was formerly the Dolphin Inn PH.
Earlier C19, possibly ca 1810, group of 3 cottages which may have originally been back to back houses.
Exterior
1-window red brick fronts; slate roofs with bracket eaves and one rendered and one slate hung chimney stacks. 2 brace plates at ends and plinth to No 5. 9 and 12-pane sash windows with nearly flush frames and cambered voussoir heads; No 6 has a 20-pane bow window with bracketed cornice - the wall itself is not bowed out below the window. The tunnel passage is entered through a round arched opening, with architrave, between Nos 5 and 6. The half glazed door to No 5 is set within the passage; similar door to No 6 with panelled reveals and 6-panel door to No 7 with 4-pane fanlight.
Rendered right end wall with 3-light windows under cambered heads; slate roof lean to at front end. Slate hung left gable end. Pebbledash modernised rear with lean-tos on Nos 5 and 6. Blocked doorway, at the rear of the tunnel passage.
Reason for designation
Group value with Claremont and Smithfield House.
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