Abbotts Stained Glass Workshop

This is a mid-18th century house and warehouse, later altered in the 19th century and now used as a shop and stained glass workshop. The building is constructed of coursed and squared sandstone and sandstone rubble, with a slate roof. The main house has a roughly L-shaped plan, with a two-depth front range and a rear wing to the left. This wing is connected to a warehouse range, with its gable facing Butterfield Street and its main elevation to Dye House Lane. The Chapel Street front is three stories high, above a cellar, and has three bays defining the main facade. It features chamfered quoins and a plain stone band above the second-floor window lintels. A shop front, dating to around 1900, occupies the ground floor and extends around the corner onto Butterfield Street. The windows have raised stone surrounds and are sash windows, lacking original glazing bars. The right-hand gable is finished with rounded coping, kneelers, and a rebuilt brick chimney stack. The rear warehouse is a narrow rectangular structure of three stories above cellars. It has a three-bay gable facing Butterfield Street, with plain stone surrounds to its openings and a central doorway on the ground floor. The windows are primarily sash windows, but they are not original. The Dye House Lane elevation comprises five irregular bays, with openings having plain stone reveals and altered joinery.

Inside the main house, a dogleg mahogany staircase is located on the left side towards the rear; it has an open string, a wreathed handrail, Tuscan columns as newels, and three turned balusters per tread. A half-landing provides access to the workshop in the former warehouse, while a straight flight of stairs leads to the second story. The spacing of the balusters varies on the upper flight. The first floor of the main building contains workshops, with doors featuring raised and fielded panels. The rear warehouse includes timber floors supported by timber beams and houses workshops on three stories, connected by straight stairwells. There are also timber workbenches and storage racks. On the second floor of the warehouse is a disused brick gas-fired kiln with iron doors, likely dating from the late 19th or early 20th century.

Abbott and Co. founded the business in 1860 and remain in their original premises.