42, 44 AND 46, PARK PLACE

The warehouses at 42, 44, and 46 Park Place date from 1870 and were designed by George Corson. Constructed in the Gothic Revival style, the building is primarily brick with ashlar detailing, stone banding, and a slate roof. It comprises a central two-bay, three-storey gabled block (number 44) flanked by four-storey, three-window blocks, all with a basement level. The ground floor is in ashlar, featuring hooded openings alternating between a carved winged beast on the ridge, square moulded surrounds, three-light frames, a central mullion, and paired cusped lights. Some ground-floor windows have a band of polychrome tile below, and there is a cart entrance on the right side. The outer blocks feature three pointed-arched windows to the first and second floors and paired flat-headed windows to the third, with a bracketed cornice and parapet, accented by tall, stone-capped chimneys. The central block is more ornate, with blind panels above the first-floor windows and narrow windows within polychrome arched recesses to the second floor, featuring an attached column with carved capital and a hoodmould between the paired windows. Brick pilasters flank the paired windows and extend to stone gutter spouts and gabled plaques flanking the main gables. The interior was not inspected. The building extends to the rear of 41 York Place and is constructed in a similar style. These warehouses were built on the former front gardens of 18th-century houses, with the three units reflecting the property boundaries of numbers 5, 6, and 7 on Park Place.