19 Steep Hill

A house, dating from the C18 and earlier, with later shopfront, including one bay of the ground floor of the adjacent building (20 Steep Hill).

MATERIALS Red brick with clay pantile roofs.

PLAN Single-depth, two bays to 19 Steep Hill and a further bay of the ground floor annexed from 20 Steep Hill, to the north; the first floor has a flying freehold in favour of 20 Steep Hill. There is a late-C19 lean-to extension running across the rear (west).

EXTERIOR A two-bay building, of two storeys and attic, with an additional ground-floor bay annexed from the neighbouring building to the north. The building has a rendered plinth to the left, deepening to accommodate the steeply-falling ground. The ground floor has a six-over-six sash window in a segmental-headed opening to the left, with a part-glazed door with a rectangular overlight to its right. Immediately right again, at the extreme northern end of the building, is a timber shopfront with pilasters, dentilled cornice, late-C20 door with overlight, and single window. The window portion marks the annexed ground-floor bay of 20 Steep Hill. The first-floor windows are two timber casements of three lights, in segmental arched openings. To the attic, a central gabled dormer with decorative bargeboards. The south gable end is rendered.

INTERIOR The ground floor has a through-passage created by the insertion of a modern partition, with a short flight of steps at the rear leading in to the lean-to extension beyond. The former partition between 19 Steep Hill and 20 Steep Hill has been removed to give access into the annexed portion of the latter building. This portion of the building has a blocked stair window indicating where the stair rose in 20 Steep Hill. A winder stair is set into the south-western corner of 19 Steep Hill, with another blocked stair window. There is a small fireplace set flush against the rear wall, with the flue in an external chimney stack now contained within the lean-to. The first floor has a single room contained wholly within the footprint of 19 Steep Hill, with another small fireplace at the rear.