Shifters

BURNLEY

SD8332NE HAMMERTON STREET 906-1/15/66 (South East side) 29/09/77 No.18 Shifters (Formerly Listed as: HAMMERTON STREET (East side) No.18 New White Horse Public House)

GV II

House. 1850; altered as public house in 1869; recently refurbished. Watershot coursed sandstone, hipped slate roof. Shallow rectangular plan on corner site, with spayed corner to Hargreaves Street. 3 storeys over cellars, 1:4:1 windows (the 1st in the splayed corner); with a moulded gutter cornice. The narrow splayed corner has a doorway with a plain surround and moulded cornice, and a door (now fixed) with a plain overlight. Flanking this corner the one-bay return wall to Hargreaves Street and the main facade to Hammerton Street each have at ground floor a large square window with a restored wooden pilastered architrave and cornice, that to the right multi-paned and that to the left with restored plate-glass etched with a large foliated pattern and lettering "BMB" in monogram with "NEW WHITE HORSE" below. Otherwise, the main facade has a similar doorway in the 3rd bay, and a plain doorway in the end bay (the present main entrance); and both facades have 12-pane sashed windows with raised sills and plain surrounds. Ridge chimney. INTERIOR altered. Forms group with Nos 12 & 14 on opposite corner (qv) and with Nos 9-29 on opposite side of street (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8391132530