Liverpool House

SJ 5441 8/85 22.12.83

WHITCHURCH C.P. HIGH STREET (north-east side) No. 5 (Liverpool House) (formerly listed as Liverpool House)

GV II

House, now shop and flat. Mid-C18. Red brick with painted stone dressings. Plain tile roof. 3 storeys. Chamfered stone quoins, moulded stone cornice, parapet with stone coping, and parapeted gable ends with stone copings. Integral brick end stacks and integral brick corner stack to right at rear. Small central lead-covered flat-roofed dormer with boarded door. 3 bays; plate-glass sashes (C18 sashes with glazing bars removed) with painted stone cills, and painted stone lintels with chanelled rustication and raised triple keystones. Complete early C19 wooden shop-front with Green Doric columns (paired to left and flanking side door to right) supporting triglyph frieze and moulded cornice with guttae (now mostly obscured by late C20 fascia - November 1986) Plate-glass windows and central glazed door with flanking panelled pilasters and carved consoles. 4-panelled side door to right (lower panels Flush). Wooden name-board between first- and second-floor windows. Brick wing at rear with large gabled dormer. Interior not inspected. This house has been dated 1775. Whitchurch Area Archaeological Group, Whitchurch Remembered, ill. 27.

Listing NGR: SJ5420641519