NHER 47031 (Building record) - 29 Tuesday Market Place and 65 High Street

29 Tuesday Market Place and 65 High Street.

December 1951. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Shop with dwelling over, now Building Society shop and offices. Early 19th century. Brown brick with red brick dressings. Slate roof. Two facades, the northern to Tuesday Market Place, the eastern to High Street. North front of four storeys in three bays. Fascia formed of two plate-glass windows separated by a central doorway and framed by plain pilasters. Pilasters doubled to terminate elevation. Each has an acanthus capital motif. Dentil fascia cornice with egg-and-dart decoration above and below. First and second floors illuminated through sash windows with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches, those to left and right at first floor are tripartite. Second-floor sashes are horned and possess a single glazing bar each. Gabled roof, hipped to east. High Street façade in four bays. Similar shopfront with a doorway to chambers above set to left. First floor contrived to have five bays by provision of two blind windows, one either side of central tripartite sash. Sashes similar except those to second floor are original and have full complement of glazing bars.
Interior reported as refitted 1990 but including resited staircase."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the full, current listing details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 11 September 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 July 2023.

1984. Building Survey.
Examined by E. James (KLM).
Report (S2) in file describes finding of glass phial with lock of hair and notes that shops were constructed in 1857 inside older building.
E. Rose (NLA), 2 November 2006.

See also (S3).