Highgate House

In the entry for: BEVERLEY WEDNESDAY MARKET 10/402 (west side)

Gas showroom (former Highgate House) (formerly listed as Radio Rouse) The address shall be amended to read: BEVERLEY WEDNESDAY MARKET (west side)

Highgate house (formerly listed as Radio House)

BEVERLEY WEDNESDAY MARKET TA 0339 (west side)

10/402 Gas Showroom (former 1.3.50 Highgate House) (formerly listed as Radio House) GV II*

Mid to late C18. 2 storeys and attic in red brick. Pantile roof and parapet with painted stone coping. Moulded eaves cornice. Fluted lead rainwater head, 2 gabled dormers with bargeboards. 3 windows, rusticated lintels with keystones, hung sashes with glazing bars. Cill bands, that to ground floor cut by shop front with pilasters, entablature and dentil cornice. Modern glazed door, rectangular fanlight in doorway with ornamental consoles, paterae, grooved entablature and dentil cornice. Elevation to Lord Roberts Road has rebuilt gable end. In wing behind, 4 windows long, stone heads and cills and 1 altered 3-light window. Doorway, brought from elsewhere, has attached Doric columns, plain lintel, modillion cornice and ornamental arched fanlight above 6-panel door. A modern door in a former window opening. Staircase has open string with carved ornament below each tread, fluted Ionic columnar newels, moulded handrail,semi-spiral curtail with C19 terminal newel alternately iron-twist balusters. Landing and stairs have moulded panelling at dado height. One room on first floor has fielded panelling, now knocked together with another room which has sunk panelling only up to dado height. Doorway downstairs in front room has moulded architrave and deeply moulded cornice. Both stairs and door are similar to those in No 62 North Bar Without .

Listing NGR: TA0361239442