8 The Borough

Late-C18 or early-C19 house and shop, altered and extended in the C20.

MATERIALS: constructed of brick with roughcast render and slate roof.

PLAN: rectangular on plan facing The Borough to the east.

EXTERIOR: the principal (east) elevation has stucco quoin detailing extending from ground to first floor level on the right-hand corner, but is absent from the left, where there is an historic iron downpipe. At ground-floor level are two shopfronts, separated by a recessed bay which has angled doors to the shops to left and right, and a central door to the apartments in the centre. The two shopfronts retain narrow glazing bars and a bulbous moulding below the glazing which are likely to date to the early-C20. Both have similar doors with panelling in the lower half and glazing in the upper half, and a glazed light over. The central door to the apartments is a late-C20 panelled door in imitation of a historic door and is arranged slightly left of centre. Below the right-hand shopfront is a window to a basement, painted over. Above both shopfronts is a wide C20 fascia which extends the full width of the façade. At first floor there are three, six-over-six sashes, arranged in four bays with the third bay blank. This is possibly the location of the internal stair. Each of the windows is topped with a stucco lintel detail of angled headers and a central slightly enlarged keystone with a moulded cap. There is an iron pattress plate between the headers of the second and third windows, indicating historic repairs. Four air vents with metal ornamental grilles have been punched into the facade at roughly lintel level, possibly in the early-C20. At second-floor level there are three small windows on a similar arrangement, with two to the left and one to the right of the blank bay. These are three-over-three and have no lintels. A moulded cornice, a little obscured by services and gutter supports, runs above these windows for the width of this façade.