Atrium Antiques

Atrium Antiques is a Grade II* listed house with a shop on the ground floor, dating from around 1725. It incorporates an earlier timber-framed structure and was reworked in 1820 for the 6th Duke of Bedford by George Maddocks, who designed new shop windows for the draper who occupied the building at that time. The building is constructed of red brick and features a shallow pitched slate roof with deep eaves.

It stands three storeys tall and is two rooms deep, with a symmetrical front elevation. The first and second floors each have three early 19th-century windows, with the central window being narrower. The central window on the second floor is blind. All windows are sashes with glazing bars set in plain reveals and topped with gauged brick flat-arched heads. The second-floor windows are shorter and squatter than those on the first floor.

The shop front occupies the entire ground floor and is bowed, with central part-glazed double doors above which is a rectangular fanlight featuring ornamental radiating glazing bars. The broad flanking windows have glazing bars matching those of the doors and are topped by an ornamental glazed frieze that includes motifs resembling buttonhole and herringbone stitches, which are said to symbolize the drapery trade. A 18th-century brick string course is visible on either side of the shop front.

The south elevation retains two 18th-century flush sash windows with glazing bars, one on each of the first and second floors. These, along with the blind windows on the ground and first floors, have gauged brick segmental heads. The ground floor also features an early 19th-century canted bay. Red brick integral stacks are present on the north and south walls.