Conservative Club

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SK0394 NORFOLK STREET 921-1/10/23 (East side) No.22 Conservative Club

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Conservative club. 1909. Coursed rock-faced millstone grit with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof and coped gables with kneelers. Stone stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storey and basement. Plinth. Street front has irregular 3 window facade topped by large shaped gable with ball finials. Moulded first floor band. Round headed doorway to left with double panel doors and boarded fanlight in moulded surround with bracketed keystone. To right, 2 slightly canted 3-light mullion windows with blank cartouche between. At basement level 2 shallow arched openings, one with iron grille, the other with double wooden doors. Above to left inset corner balcony with openwork balustrades, stumpy column with bold capital and shouldered archway to each face. To right two 3-light mullion windows with plain sashes. Above moulded ashlar bands with frieze inscribed:- 'CONSERVATIVE CLUB'. Above large 3-light transom and mullion window flanked by lower single side lights with plain sashes, all with flat hoods. Centre topped by shield inscribed:- '1909'. Left return has very irregular 6-window front, canted to left, with gable and tall stair tower with parapet and pyramidal roof. Off-centre doorway has chamfered lintel under shaped hood with to right two 2-light mullion windows and single small window beyond. To left single sash and single doorway. Above 6 windows one round headed and another circular. Above again tall stair windows with 2 sashes to left and 3 paired sashes to right. Rear elevation blank with 2-storey outshut. INTERIOR :not inspected.

Listing NGR: SK0352894133