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
W.Henry Price
Address
1 Short Bridge Street
Location
At the crossroads in the centre of the town on the corner with and with elevation to China Street.
History
Late Georgian with Victorian and modern alterations. Formerly the New Inn and combined with No 2 it was once the main hostelry in the town.
Exterior
3-storey, 3-window whitewashed cement rendered front with plinth. Old slate roof with boarded slightly swept eaves; stock brick chimney stacks with blue-brick bands; 1 skylight. Recessed sash windows with cills; 6-pane to 2nd floor, 12-pane to 1st floor with tripartite horned sash to left. Modern shopfronts below with overall boarded fascia and raked plate glass windows; central half glazed door.
Similar 3-window China Street elevation. Further entrance combined with the right hand shop window; one metal frame casement to 2nd floor with some glazing bars retained. The left gable end is slate hung. At the rear the area behind the L-plan front ranges is filled by a gable ended cross range to the rear of China Street and a cat slide roof slate hung extension (after 1887) to rear of the main front. Considerable use of corrugated iron. Rubble boundary wall to rear yard.
Interior
Extensively altered internally.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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