Barclays Bank Kingswood Chemists

TL 1439 SHEFFORD NORTHBRIDGE STREET 8/121 (east side)

16.1.52 No. 6 (Barclays Bank) 31.10.66. and No. 8 (Kingswood Chemists)

GV II

House, now divided into 2 properties and converted to commercial use. C16, reworked early C19 and C20. Closely studded timber framed building with red brick infill, some pebbledash render and some red brick refacing. No. 8 is rebuilt in early C19 red brick, with flared headers to some parts. Clay tile roofs. H-plan. 2 storeys, LH cross-wing 2 storeys and attics. No. 6: main block has carriage entrance to LH with flat timber head, carved spandrels and plank gates, the area above this hung with fishscale tiles. To R of this ground floor has C20 shop front in early C19 style, and first floor has gabled oriel window on cut brackets, with mullions and leaded lights, and fishscale tiles to gable. Cross-wing with timbering exposed, has leaded mullion and transom windows, one of 5-lights to ground floor, one of 4-lights to first floor. When the building was reworked in 1919 (plaque) the ground floor studwork was removed from the cross-wing and new studwork installed in line with the central block of the house, thereby producing a pedestrian passageway across the ground floor of the crosswing. Cross-wing has rebuilt red brick multiple chimney stack with moulded linked octagonal stacks. Main block has red brick double ridge stack. No. 8: C20 shop front takes up whole of ground floor. First floor and attic have C20 windows with rebuilt flat heads. Gambrel roof has brick eaves mouldings to gable, and brick dentil eaves cornice to side elevations. Variety of chimney stacks.

Listing NGR: TL1437839169