38, 39 and 40 Stodman Street

Three former houses dating to the C18, with the ground floor converted into three retail units in the C20.

MATERIALS: the building is faced with rusticated stucco render, with timber and brick to the ground floor shop fronts. the windows are all timber sashes. The roof coverings are slate.

PLAN: the principal range runs parallel to Stodman Street with a series of perpendicular two-storey rear ranges extending to the south. The ground-floor is split into two separate retail units.

EXTERIOR: the Stodman Street frontage features seven bays of sash windows to the first and second floors above two ground floor shop units. The late-C20 shopfront at numbers 38 and 39 occupies the east and central ground floor units under a shared facia divided by moulded pilasters. These units feature plate glass windows above brick stallrisers. The shop unit to the west at number 40 features a C19 shopfront with C20 glazing. The off-centre glazed door is recessed within plate glass windows with leaded top lights. The shop front is flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters and is surmounted by an enriched dentillated cornice. Between numbers 39 and 40 is a close boarded entry door with a decorative cast iron grille above. Lintel bands run between the ground and first, and first and second floors. The coped parapet wall has seven blank panels aligned to the window bays below. From the east, the first four window bays to the first and second floor are six-over-six sashes, with the remaining all two-over-two sashes except for the sixth bay on the second floor which is blind.