18 And 20, Cheshire Street

SJ 6634-6734 13/27 7.5.52

MARKET DRAYTON C.P. CHESHIRE STREET (south east)

Nos. 18 and 20 (formerly listed as No. 20)

GV II

House, now shop. Early C17 with alterations of c.1900. Timber framed with plastered infill panels, partly rebuilt and underbuilt in red brick. Plain tile roof. Framing: formerly jettied first-floor with moulded and carved bressumer. Closely-spaced uprights with middle rail to front and left-hand return front with diagonal struts in rectangular panels, forming lozenge patterns. Slightly jettied gable end with moulded and ogee-stopped cambered tie-beam, and 3 tiers of cusped quatrefoil square panels in gable. 2 framed bays. 2 storeys and attic. Plain barge boards. Central brick stack. First-floor 2-light C19 wooden casement to left. Late C20 shop- front to right with large plate-glass window. Circa 1900 shop front to left-hand corner has a pair of plate-glass windows with flanking chevron- ornamented recessed pilasters and glazed door on angle at corner. Left- hand return front: 3-light C19 wooden first-floor and attic casements. Circa 1900 four-panelled door to left with C17 ogee-stopped roll-moulded reveals, narrow rectangular overlight and c.1900 pilastered surround with shaped brackets to bressumer above. Right-hand gable end with 2-light chamfered-mullioned wooden casement. Interior: 2-bay roof. Central collar and tie-beam truss with 3 queen struts, king strut and brick and wattle and daub infill. Gable end to south-west has collar and tie-beam truss with V-struts. Pairs of staggered purlins with straight wind braces. Old floor boards.

Listing NGR: SJ6752434192