33-36, ALBION STREET B1

ALBION STREET 1. 5104 Hockley Bl Nos 33 to 36 (consec) SP 0687 NW 24/38 SP 0687 SW 28/1 II GV 2. Circa 1830, originally a symmetrical composition of 4 houses with No 36 and No 37 projecting as wings. No 37 is now so altered as to be unlistable. Three storeys stucco faced. Two bays to No 33 and 2 each to Nos 34 and 36 with lower 2-storey extension probably former gig houses since altered. Ground floors consistently chanelled up to first floor sill band. No 33, the wing, has the 2 bays of upper floors articulated by Soanian incised panel pilaster strips, plain parapet with coping. Low hipped slate roof to main block of Nos 34 to 36 with moulded bed to flat eaves. Revealed glazing bar sash windows. No 34 has round headed doorway, 4 panel door with fanlight, pilaster strips with consoles to the projecting cornice. No 36 has a good doorway with panelled door and radial glazed fanlight flanked by engaged slender columns with oval panelled sections of entablature and open pediment. An early survival of domestic architecture in the jewelling quarter later altered to workshop use.

Listing NGR: SP0601787490