7 And 9, Cross Street

SE 7613-7713 CROWLE CROSS STREET (north side)

16/45 Nos 7 and 9

GV II

Pair of houses and shops, now houses. c1830. Red and yellow brick in contrasting Flemish bond. Welsh slate roof. Double-depth plan, with each shop flanked by a through-passage to the right; kitchens to rear. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Rendered plinth to left (No 9). Shopfront to No 9 has step to 6-fielded-panel door beneath moulded lintel and plain overlight in reveal, 25-pane segmental bow window to right with boarded apron; door and window in surround with ribbed pilasters carrying entablature (bowed above window), with dosserets, plain frieze and moulded cornice. Shopfront to No 7 similar, but with C20 part-glazed door to right of shop window. Passage entrances each have recessed 6-beaded-panel double doors in ribbed reveal with a ribbed lintel and recessed brick panel beneath a channelled elliptical arch with raised key and imposts. 12-pane first- floor sashes in wooden roll-moulded architraves with sills beneath chanelled wedge lintels. Plain wooden eaves board. Raised stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers. Large corniced axial stack. Interior not investigated.

Listing NGR: SE7724113117