The Exchange Club

BIGBY STREET 1. 5264 (North Side) No 11 and The Exchange Club TA 00 NW 2/4 10.10.52. II* GV 2. Mid C18 and later. Yellow and red brick. The 2 houses form a slightly irregular unit joining in a symmetrical gable end projecting to the roadway with a large stepped gable. 2 storeys and attics to 3 storeys in the centre, where there is a 3-storeyed, 3-window bay topped by a parapet with 3 sections of balustrade. The central windows of the bay, ground and 1st floors have moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze and cornice on 2 consoles. 1 window on both sides of the bay. The main wing of No 11 is 2 storeys with a parapet, band between the storeys, 5 irregularly-spaced windows to 1st floor. Rectangular brick porch in the corner. Glazing bars gone from the windows of this wing but intact elsewhere. The return front of the Exchange Club (East) wing of 2 storeys, 3 windows, brick bands above both storeys, central window with semi-circular head with Gothick glazing bars. Good central doorcase with 2 columns with bark rustication, triglyph friezes and dentilled triangular pediment broken over the semi-circular head of the doorway. All windows to both houses (excepting central windows of the bay, qv) are hung sashes in wooden cases almost flush with the wall, flat arched heads with keystone and plain cills. Nos 8, 11, The Exchange Club, 12 and 14 form a group.

Listing NGR: TA0013207180