28-32, WESTGATE

WESTGATE 1. 5113 (North Side) Nos 28 to 32 (even) SE 1416 NW 1/1371 II GV 2. Mid C19. Ashlar. Hipped slate roof. 4 storeys. Deeply moulded cornice with modillions. Raised quoins. 5 ranges of sashes and rounded corner to Railway Street. Nos 28 and 30 have very fine contemporary shopfront with horizontally rusticated piers, round-arched windows with moulded voussoirs and keystones separated by fluted columns with Tower of the Winds Capitals: 12-panelled door with semi-circular fanlight at west end. No 32 has similar columns, but the upper part is obscured by modern fascia. 1st floor windows have moulded surrounds, pulvinated friezes and cornices. 2nd floor windows are linked to them by fluted consoles they have moulded surrounds and triangular pediments on consoles. 3rd floor windows have shouldered moulded surrounds. On the corner windows are tripartite 1st floor window has square Tuscan columns as mullions, gadrooned keystone and entablature: 2nd floor window linked to it by fluted consoles; it has moulded surround with entablature and central light has further moulded surround with keystone and broken segmental pediment 3rd floor window has shouldered moulded surround, with festoons at sides, and moulded sill.

Listing NGR: SE1434516756