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
22/03/1993
Date of Amendment
22/03/1993
Name of Property
London House
Location
On corner of Narrow St and High Street.
History
Late C18/early C19 three storey shop.
Exterior
High Street rendered elevation of two bays articulated by Ionic pilasters. Two top floor windows with twelve-pane (four panes over eight) hornless sash glazing. Two first floor windows with sixteen-pane hornless sash glazing. On ground floor, two mid C19 shopfronts, that to L consisting of advanced doorway to L (dentil cornice over) and shopwindow to its R. Shopfront to R is double-fronted with central doorway between shopwindows, classically-derived shallow pilasters, fascia with bracketed cornice.
Premises extend (in three storeys) along Narrow Street incorporating former separate shops. To L, painted brick section has window to each floor. To R of this, with higher eaves level, is rubble fronted section with square second floor window, camber-headed first floor window with small-pane Yorkshire sash, and fixed small-pane glazing to ground floor camber-headed window. To R again, with same eaves level, is two bay (painted) brick fronted section with, to L, camber-headed top floor window, square-headed first floor window with small-pane horned sash glazing and (off-set to L) camber-headed doorway with broad window to its R. This section has to R, on top and first floors, tall loading bay doors, beneath which is camber-headed entrance doorway.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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