Conway House (Premises Of Rg Bolam And Son)

ROTHBURY HIGH STREET NU 0501 (North side) 25/290 Conway House (premises of R.G. Bolam & Sons) GV II

House with ground floor shop, dated 1876, with early C19 rear wing. Tooled ashlar; rear wing squared stone with tooled-and-margined dressings. Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. 3 storeys + attic, 5 windows. Ground floor has ornamental timber cornice broken forward above pilasters flanking shopfront on left and yard entrance on right; twin basket-arched shop windows have moulded stone plinth and flanking fluted and twisted cast-iron uprights; central pair of half-glazed doors. Yard entrance has panelled double gates, the upper parts open with ornamental wrought-iron screenwork, and 3-pane overlight. lst floor has moulded sill and impost bands and arched windows; archivolts have keystones with incised ornament, the central dated. 2nd floor has moulded bands below aprons and at impost level of basket-arched windows. Moulded eaves cornice on large paired brackets. 2 timber roof dormers with moulded 3-centred arches. Coped gables on shaped foot stones; truncated end stacks. All windows plain sashes.

3-bay wing to rear left with renewed 12-pane sashes in alternating-block surrounds. Included for group value; altered L-plan range at end of wing is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NU0563101735