Asset type
Historic building - Shop
Local Listing Reference
LLHA0025
Conservation Area (CA)
Preston Park CA
Description
Terraced buildings, which step up the hill with staggered roofline. Two storey with rendered elevations and shallow pitched roofs (now concrete tile), fronting directly onto the pavement. Mid 19th century shopfronts of simple design. Above, one hung sash window to each building, with rounded corners to the opening. Deep modillion eaves cornice above.
Each shopfront is of slightly different design, although those to numbers 19 and 20 have similarly-detailed corbels and fascias and originally likely formed a pair. Number 19 has a central recessed entrance. Number 20 has been altered to provide an additional door. Number 21 has a particularly deeply recessed door with Victorian tiling.
A. Architectural, design and artistic interest
ii. Good example of simple mid 19th century shopfronts. It is unusual for such ‘lower status’ shopfront to survive in the area.
C. Townscape interest
i. Contributes positively to the Preston Park Conservation Area, but atypical of it. There are no other historic shops in this part of the conservation area, and few surviving historic shopfronts of similar status in the area as a whole
F. Intactness
i. The buildings and their shopfronts survive relatively intact.
Date of inclusion
2015
