136 AND 138, EDMUND STREET B3

1. 5104 SP 0687 SE 29/20 21.1.70

EDMUND STREET (north-west side) City Centre B3 Nos 136 and 138 (formerly listed as No 36)

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2. Circa 1880, in a Venetian Gothic style. Brick and terracotta. Four storeys; 5 bays. Ground floor articulated and now painted, the outer arched entrances slightly broader and taller than the 3 centre arches and having an enriched sexfoil in the tympana. The entrance to No 138 with a perhaps later gable over it. The outer bays have trefoil-headed sash windows, on the first floor beneath pointed arches with floral hoodstops and, on the 2nd floor, beneath a gable. The 3 inner bays each have 2 sash windows within a single tall lancet with hoodmould with floral hoodstops. In the spandrels diaper work. Third floor with a row of 12 narrow windows with bar tracery. Between them rise narrow brackets for the richly decorated cornice.

Listing NGR: SP0680987135