44, Watergate

SJ 5441 8/136 1.5.51

WHITCHURCH URBAN CP WATERGATE (north-east side)

No 44

GV II

House, now house and shop. Circa 1700, altered in the early- to mid-C20, and again in the late C20. Red brick, with some sandstone dressings. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic. Chamfered quoins (those to right-hand rebuilt), plain wooden fascia, and coped parapeted gable ends (rebuilt in C20) with integral brick end stacks. Three C20 roof lights. 5 bays; first-floor wooden cross windows and ground-floor C18 boxed 4-pane sashes (glazing bars removed), with painted stone cills and lintels. Inserted C20 plate-glass shop-front to right. Roughly central doorway (reset slightly to the right - see straight joint) with C20 half-glazed door, rectangular overlight and painted stone lintel. INTERIOR: Well-detailed pre-1720 dog-leg oak staircase, rising 2 floors, with half-landings, pulvinated closed string, stubby column-on-vase balusters, moulded ramped handrail, and panelled square newel posts with moulded caps. Depressed archway to ground-floor corridor with panelled pilasters.

Listing NGR: SJ5424041365