49-63, FARGATE

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SK3587SW FARGATE 784-1/24/315 (South East side) Nos.49-63 (odd) Carmel House

GV II

7 shops with offices above. Dated 1890, with late C20 alterations. Ashlar with steep pitched slate roof with various grouped coped stacks. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys plus attics; 13 window range. Curving facade on corner site. Windows are mainly cross-mullioned casements. First floor has an off-centre canted oriel window. To left, six 2-light windows, the 2 to left being taller. To right, 4 similar windows arranged in pairs, then another canted oriel window. The windows have round heads with carved tympana, and decorated cornices above. The oriel windows have round-headed central lights with toplights and flanking lights. Above, a shallow floor with bays defined by thin pilasters and a cornice with animal figures. Similar window arrangement to the floor below, with ten 3-light round-headed windows with flattened ogee hoodmoulds and finials which intersect the cornice. The 4 windows to right are paired. The oriel windows have a segment-headed recess containing a round-headed 2-light mullioned window, and on either side, single round-headed lights. Third floor has the same window arrangement with 6 large 3-light cross mullioned windows to left and 4 paired 2-light windows to right. The oriel windows have 3-light windows with flanking lights. Above, a carved frieze with bosses and animal figures. Attic floor has a crenellated parapet framing 10 gable dormers, each with a 2-light cross mullioned, pointed arch window with plate tracery. Oriel windows have larger dormers with finials and flat-headed triple lancets fronted by canted pseudo-balconies with large segmental openings. Entrance bay, to left, has on the first floor a 2-storey round-arched recess with a 3-light cross mullioned window on each stage and a panelled transom between them. Above, a 3-light window on the third floor, and above it, a gabled dormer similar to those over the oriel windows, but without the balcony. On the ground floor, a round-arched entrance. To right, the ground floor has 7 late C20 shopfronts with a blind arcaded balustrade with engaged octagonal shafts above them. Between the 2 shopfronts to far right, a small round-headed doorway with a blank round-headed window above it, with decorated spandrels. INTERIOR remodelled late C20.

Listing NGR: SK3539787282