Sun Alliance Buildings

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SK 5804 SE 3/202

HORSEFAIR STREET (north side) Nos 17 to 21 (odd) (Sun Alliance Buildings)

30.3.72

GV II 1891 by Goddard and Paget. Modified C16 Flemish style. Red brick with much cut and moulded enrichment. Three storeys and attics. Ashlar ground floor with bracketed dentilled cornice over, large two three and five-light stone mullion/transom windows with small Ionic and Corinthian pilastered mullions, central round-arch doorway with carved spandrels and fluted Corinthian half-columns on pedestals, elliptical arch doorway with entablature on left. Above five windows, ends slightly project, moulded mullion/transom four and two-light windows with flanking brick pilasters with carved capitals, above first floor windows are small semi-circular shell niches in frieze of entablature. Above second floor windows relief decorations to deep frieze and dentilled cornice. Attic windows are in five gables with stone coping with finials, the end gables over projections have small flanking turret shafts, semi-circular shell niches over attic windows.

Nos 6-8, The Royal Hotel, Nos 17, 19 and 21 together with The Town Hall, Fountain and War Memorial in Town Hall Square and all listed buildings in Bishop Street form a group around Town Hall Square.

Listing NGR: SK5878004383