158 Freeman Street

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TA2709NE FREEMAN STREET 699-1/18/34 (West side) No.158

II

Jeweller's shop. Mid C19, remodelled 1939 by Pollards of London for C Nidd and Son. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Front with fascia of polished black Vitrolite glass with bronze strip surround, and with bronze surrounds to openings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, single bay. Ground floor has square-headed plate-glass shop window on right side and entrance on left side to a long, slightly tapering, serpentine passage with a series of 4 large plate-glass display windows to each side. Shop windows to the front and the passage all have black Vitrolite aprons with small circular ventilators, slender wood frames, and friezes with black glass panels with white lettering. Entrance passage has a glazed wooden inner door beneath a plain overlight, polished composite stone floor with grey and black border; panelled wooden ceiling with a circular clock suspended midway along passage. Full-height shop fascia has flush surround to the front window and doorway with a deep black Vitrolite frieze above with attached white lettering "PHILIP JOHN", framed by the bronze arms for a folding canopy. Attached in front of this is a later painted name-board in a matching style bearing the name "JONATHAN PAUL". Above this is the canopy box and a tripartite first-floor window, all with bronze surrounds. The wide central window has a recesssed black Vitrolite panel with white lettering "ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING RINGS -- WATCH SPECIALISTS" within a white border. Narrow flanking side lights have frosted glass behind thin bronze "fish-scale" pattern lattice-work; each side light with a burglar alarm box attached near the top. C19 corniced wooden gutter above. End stack to right. INTERIOR: entrance passage is boxed in with polished mahogany panelling and sliding doors, with plinth, frieze and cornice. Contemporary display cabinets. Robert Nidd founded the family jewellers business in 1895, and from the mid C20 the business traded under the name "Philip John". Since 1994 it has traded under the name "Jonathan Paul". A distinctive shop front in the Modern style, notable for its high standard of design, materials and manufacture.

Listing NGR: TA2761809856