Re North And Co Limited And Attached Railings And Gate Piers

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SK0393NW VICTORIA STREET 921-1/14/34 (East side) 27/01/78 RE North & Co Ltd and attached railings and gate piers (Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA STREET (East side) Premises occupied by Richard E North)

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Church sunday school, now factory. 1881 with C20 alterations. Coursed millstone grit with polychromatic ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs with coped gables and kneelers. Crenellated stone stacks. STYLE: Venetian Gothic Revival. PLAN: L-plan with south-west corner tower and porch. EXTERIOR: 2 storey. Street front has 4 windows arranged 3:1 with tower to right. To right projecting gabled porch with pointed polychromatic arch doorway with flanking columns and ornate double doors with boarded fanlight. Tall square tower has single 2-light pointed arch window, and top stage with double pointed arches supported on columns to each face with single window and tiny window above to each arch. Square pyramidal hipped roof with ball finial. To left 2 pairs of pointed polychromatic arch windows with single columns between and pointed relieving arches above. Beyond to left single pointed polychromatic arch window. Above flush ashlar band and similar window arrangement with continuous sill band, though without relieving arches. Left return has 6 windows arranged 5:1. To right single window, taller gabled wing with paired pointed polychromatic arch windows with column between and under single pointed relieving arch. Above similar pair of pointed polychromatic arch windows with column between. To left 5 pairs of flat headed windows with plain sashes, those at either end with doorway to left, and above 5 pointed polychromatic arch windows. Right return has windows with flat headed lintels, and blocked door to tower. Rear lean-to addition. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached to front low boundary wall with chamfered ashlar coping topped with ornate cast-iron railings with trefoil finials to uprights and to right gateway with square ashlar gate piers with chamfered corners and pyramidal caps and pair of ornate cast-iron gates with trefoil finials to uprights and dog bars.

Listing NGR: SK0338293828