11 Cheapside

A wool-stapler’s warehouse of the first quarter of the C19, converted as offices.

MATERIALS: hand-made brick with some sandstone walling, slate roof.

PLAN: a three-storey block facing onto Cheapside with a rear façade to Carter Street.

EXTERIOR: the entrance faces Cheapside. The building is of three bays, in brown brick laid to English Garden Wall bond of four stretcher courses to each header course. The openings on upper floors all have segmental-arched brick heads, and the top floor retains a projecting hoist beam. The central full-height loading bay has replacement doors, but original overlight to the ground floor (partially concealed by modern signage*). To either side are stacked windows, in openings with sandstone sills, and ground-floor lintels. Windows are mostly replacement casements, but to the right of the entrance is an early-C19 sash without horns and with a six-pane upper light. To the left on the first floor is an early-C19 sash with eight panes per sash and no horns. At the extreme right is a narrow four-panelled door.

The rear façade has a sandstone rubble plinth, and brown brick in English Garden Wall bond of five stretcher courses to each header course. It is largely blind, with an inserted window to the ground and top floors (modern casements), and an external air-conditioning unit*. There is a vertical mortar joint with number 9 at the right (which is lower) and number 13 at the left (taller).

INTERIOR: this is reported to retain hewn purlins and roof trusses, and a large hoist wheel.

*Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the modern signage to the front façade, and external air-conditioning unit to the rear façade, are not of special architectural or historic interest. However, any works which have the potential to affect the character of the listed building as a building of special architectural or historic interest may still require listed building consent and this is a matter for the local planning authority to determine.