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
26/03/1985
Date of Amendment
26/03/1985
Name of Property
Radnor House including Annie's Cake Shop and Nick's Bargain Centre
Location
On corner with Green End opposite the Market Hall.
History
1890s Arts and Crafts influence, possibly earlier structure behind the unusual frontage.
Exterior
2 storeys, 3 half timbered bays, applied black and white treatment with cusped panels and ornamental pargetting infill. High tiled roofs, over sailing eaves, hipped roof over centre bay with tiny swept dormers and cusped lights, panelled bargeboards with finials to outer gables, jettied over 1st floor cantilevered bays of 4-lights each. Coloured mosaic tiles to frieze over ground floor fascia with continuous crenellated cornice. Shop windows with small-paned heads, 3 doorways with Gothic panelled doors, coloured glazing to fanlights, doorway on splayed corner.
Older rubble built and slated wing to rear.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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