3 And 5, Church Street

MALPAS C.P. CHURCH STREET SJ 44 NE (South Side) 2/44 Nos.3 and 5 GV II

Office with accommodation over (No.3) and shop with accommodation over (No.5). 1729, the front and east end of No.3 refaced circa 1900. Stone-dressed hard red brick (No.3); No.5 rendered; grey slate roofs. 3 storeys; 2 windows. 2 full-width attached front parapet gables. No.5 has plain square corner pilasters with rendered moulded stone caps carrying stone balls; bands at 1st and 2nd floors; cornice at gable base; stone gable finials; shop front circa 1900 with recessed central door and panelled softwood pilasters and fascia; 2 flush unequal sashes to middle storey of 15 panes with projecting keystones and moulded cills; the gable, painted as if timber-framed, contains a replaced small-pane sash. The head of the pilaster between No.3 and No.5 is inscribed D (for Drake ?): IA:1729. The rebuilding of No.3 reflects the original design but with the hard detailing and materials of the turn of the C19, and with late C20 office door and glazing. Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ4873547223