Royal Exchange Buildings And Adjoining Castle House

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SK3587NE LADY'S BRIDGE 784-1/20/458 (South East side) 04/08/92 Royal Exchange Buildings and adjoining Castle House

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Development incorporating flats, shops, veterinary surgery and dogs' home, now shops and flats. By John Henry Bryars. Dated 1900, with late C20 alterations. Brown glazed brick, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. EXTERIOR: Royal Exchange Buildings, comprising shops and flats, has moulded sillbands, octagonal corner buttresses, and mansard roof with 7 coped brick stacks on the front wall. 4 storeys plus attics; 14 window range. 7 bays divided by canted pilasters, with crowstep gables and finials to the central and outer bays. Windows are mainly plain sashes, some of them boarded. First and second floors have 14 windows. Third floor has central gable with moulded oval window, flanked by 4 box dormers. Beyond, the end bays have 2 windows. Attic has 5 box dormers. Ground floor has 7 shopfronts divided by glazed brick pilasters, under a continuous cornice. To left, a largely unaltered shopfront with segment-headed opening containing shop window to left and recessed door with overlight to right. Other shopfronts are boarded or reglazed. Right return has central buttress topped with finial in crowstep gable. 2 windows on the upper floors, and on the ground floor, a pair of large altered openings. Rear has to left a stair tower with steep pitched swept roof and finials, with access bridges and balconies to each floor. To right, a link building, 3 storeys plus attics; 2 window range. 2 gable stacks. On the upper floors, 2 windows, and above, 2 through-eaves dormers with crowstep gables. Ground floor has a cart entrance with segment-arched double doors. Castle House, to rear, has a continuous basement with windows, carrying the building and the access road, with a cast-iron balustrade and wrought-iron gateway with overthrow incorporating Bryars' monogram. The access road links Lady's Bridge with Blonk Street. Sillbands, main cornice, crenellated coped parapet and gables. 3 storeys plus basement and garret; 12 window range. Bays are divided by canted pilasters. River front has 12 windows to each of the upper floors. Ground floor has 4 large openings, now blocked, to the access road, with shouldered heads and steel lintels. Angled left corner, above the access road, has 2 windows on each of the upper floors, and a shouldered opening below. Left return has regular fenestration with a Venetian window and hoist in the gable. INTERIOR not inspected. This building is complementary to Royal Victoria Buildings (qv) on the opposite side of the road, and forms part of the same scheme of development. (Deposited Plan, 1899).

Listing NGR: SK3575987793