A And J Sargent House Furnishers And Attached Rear Wing

The building is a mid-19th century shop with earlier origins, along with an attached rear wing and stable. Part of the property has roots in the late 18th and early 19th century, and a later 19th-century stair turret is located at the rear. A separate 18th-century house and stables are situated along a rear yard.

The shop front is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, brick dressings, and stucco to the front. It features a pantile roof and brick stacks. It is two storeys high with three windows on the first floor. A plinth and quoins are present. The shop front to the left has three engaged, tapered columns flanking a part-glazed door with a plain overlight to the right, and a plain shop window to the left. A fascia, cornice, and hood are also present. A plain glazed window is located to the right. The first floor has a band and 12-pane sashes, all with channelled and keyed stucco lintels and cills. Brick coped and tumbled gables and end stacks are also present. Inside, the front rooms and stairhall feature moulded plaster cornices. A first-floor front room has panelled doors and window shutters in beaded architraves with moulded cornices. A wide open-well staircase has plain balusters and a wreathed handrail.

The adjoining house to the rear has a front of red and blue brick in contrasting Flemish bond, with sides and rear of coursed rubble. A pantile roof and brick stack are present. It is two storeys high with three windows on the first floor. A part-glazed panelled door on the left, in a plain surround with a hood, has a bow-window to the right, with glazing bars and bead-moulded cill. A plank door to the right has a three-light sliding sash with glazing bars. Another plank door at the right end has a casement with glazing bars. All three sets of door and window are under flattened segmental arches. A two-course first floor band is also present. 20th-century casements are within original first-floor openings, under flattened segmental arches; one opening is blocked. A cogged brick eaves cornice is present. A central stack is visible, along with a brick coped and tumbled gable to the right. Inside, there are beamed ceilings and a pegged butt-purlin roof, along with a fine late 18th-century cast-iron ‘duck’s nest’ grate in a later first-floor fireplace.

The adjoining stable is set back to the right and is built of coursed rubble to the ground floor with brick dressings, and brick to the first floor. It has a two-cell plan and is two storeys high. A round-arched central entrance has a part-glazed and boarded opening to the right and a door to the right end with a small adjoining casement, all under segmental brick arches. Rounded ground floor angles are stepped-out to projecting brick first floor corners. The first floor has a sliding sash with vertical glazing bars above the entrance and a pair of plank doors to the right. The interior contains stables and a store-room above. At the time of survey, all areas except the shop were empty and disused.