Royal Arcade Crown Buildings

KEIGHLEY LOW STREET SE 0641 SW (North Side) 27/313 Nos 67 to 81 (odd) and Royal Arcade: Crown Buildings

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Shops and shopping arcade with offices over. 1899 built for Turner and Fowlds incorporating early C19 building. Ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with 10 stone stacks . 3 storey. Moulded bands, pilasters between bays with ornately carved capitals, moulded eaves and parapet topped by ball finials. South, Low Street front. 7 bays, with 3 bay earlier building to left. 6 shops with to the left an arcade arch, then 2 further shops. Above central 2 storey curved bay window with 3 sashes, beyond to right a single further sash, all in shouldered surrounds. Beyond to left over arcade a round arch with keystone, and panel inscribed ROYAL ARCADE. Upper floor has similar fenestration pattern, with 3 windows over arcade entrance, all with bracketted flat hoods. Parapet inscribed CROWN BUILDINGS. Central bay topped by a gabled dormer with broken segmental pediment. Beyond to left a lower early C19 building with a double and a single sash and above 3 casements. Topped by a stone slate hipped roof. Corner to south-east has recessed entrance with door and overlight, above a projecting canted bay window with 3 sashes to each floor. Topped by an octagonal cupola with missing dome. East, Fleece Street front. 8 bays, with from the right a flat headed carriage entrance, then a shop front and a recessed entrance to offices, then 2 further shop. fronts and an arcade entrance, with beyond a pair of shop fronts. Above the arcade entrance has a round arch with keystone, and panel inscribed 'ROYAL ARCADE'. To the right 4 bays, the centre 2 with 3 windows and the outer 2 with 2 windows. To the left 3 bays, the first with 3 windows, the second with one window, and the third with 2 windows. All in shouldered surrounds. Upper floor has similar fenestration pattern, with 3 windows over the arcade arch, all with bracketted flat hoods. Windows are plain sashes throughout. 2 storey L-plan shopping arcade, with east arm now blocked. Most internal shop fronts survive, with balcony to east, and glazed roof. This building also includes Nos 1, 3 and 9 Fleece Street.

Listing NGR: SE0629241119