Nos 23 And 25 (Including Passage To Clifton Place)

SJ 2929 NW OSWESTRY C.P. BAILEY STREET (west side)

14/17 Nos. 23 and 25 - (including passage to Clifton Place) GV II Pair of houses, now shops. Early C19 with later additions and alterations. Red brick, slate roof partly concealed by eaves parapet, red brick stacks behind ridge. 3 storeys, wooden moulded eaves cornice with triglyphs; 2-window front, tripartite glazing bar sashes having cornices, fluted to first floor, with paterae and rosettes. No. 23 (left) has C19 shop front with moulded entablature supported on elaborate gilded console brackets; late C20 shopfront to No. 25. Round-arched passageway to left, leading to Clifton Place has 2 chamfered beams from late medieval house apparently still in situ, front one with mortices for close-set vertical posts and back one (originally internal) with intertwining leaf decoration issuing from bird (left) and beast's (? dragon) head (right). Long C19 hip-roofed red brick range to rear.

Listing NGR: SJ2905929689