21 High Street

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SE 5703 SE 7/46

TOWN OF DONCASTER HIGH STREET (north side) No 21

(Formerly listed as No 21 (Waring and Gillow))

GV II

Public meeting rooms, now shop. 1841, with C20 alterations. Rendered stone with painted stone dressings, roof hidden behind parapet. Three storeys and three bays. C20 shop front to full width of ground floor. Three semi-circular headed first floor windows in pilastered surrounds with moulded archivolts, panelled keystones and large dentilled open pediments on consoles and dosserets. Mixed fenestration of leaded lights and C20 casements. Moulded sill stringcourse. Similar string-course to second floor interrupted by moulded brackets supporting sills to three six-pane sashes in eared architraves with paterae to the top corners. Stepped frieze and bracketed cornice above. Plain parapets with moulded copings. Reduced side wall stacks.

Built as a rival concern to the Subscription Rooms (1826) (qv) opposite.

Source: 'The Changing Face of Doncaster', by Colin Walton.

Listing NGR: SE5756103286