Hudson Edmunds And Company Limited

This is a brass works, dating from approximately 1840 to 1850. The main block is a three-storey building with seven bays, accompanied by two-storey wings that have breaks flanking the main block. These breaks contain large wagon arches on the ground floor. The building is constructed of painted brick, featuring a plinth and a ground floor cornice that extends across both the wings and the main block. A sill course is present on the second floor, and the eaves have a drip moulded, boxed cornice. Parapet coping tops the wings, with a lean-to section of wall above the break on the left-hand wing. The ground floor windows are recessed and feature segmental arched, panelled zones between the sills and plinth. The first floor windows are round arched, connected by impost strings and with small-pane fixed iron frames radiating to their heads. Above the wagon arches are groups of three stone-dressed windows with pilasters and archivolts, the surround rising to a moulded cornice, with a panelled apron on the plinth below the moulded sills. The wagon arches are stone-dressed and rise from panelled imposts with spaced voussoirs and keystones. This building represents a formal and symmetrical works elevation, which is relatively rare for this period.