17, 19 AND 21, FRODSHAM STREET

This is a shop and warehouse, later used as a restaurant and now a wine bar, dating to circa 1900. It was designed for Phillipson and Golder in the style of John Douglas. The building is constructed of red Ruabon brick with a red-brown clay tile roof.

The building is two storeys plus an attic. The ground floor is characterised by end piers and three intermediate piers with roll-moulded edges. The ground floor arrangement includes a six-panel door with a single-pane overlight, three shop windows with small panes below a transom and leaded glazing above, and a segmental-arched opening containing a six-panel door within a plaster-panelled screen. A grey-green slate canopy extends over the left-hand door and shop windows, supported by shaped brackets.

The upper storey, designed in a Germanic style, has a steep roof with small, high-set dormers. The roof slopes down to the front eaves above four bays with mullioned and transomed windows, some with leaded lights. A pair of loading doors are present, with a hoist arm above. The eaves are jettied over all bays except the left, and the three central bays have tile hanging and gabled fronts, while the loading bay has a hipped roof.

The rear elevation features a continuous, one-storey brick outshut with a lean-to roof. Above the outshut are two broad, plaster-panelled, timber-framed gables, each supporting a full-width mullioned casement window, with a mix of small panes and leaded lights. A four-light small-pane casement window is located in the tile-hung attic between the gables. The interior has not been inspected.