Cauis House

WYMONDHAM

TG1001 MIDDLETON STREET 655-1/8/124 (South West side) 29/12/50 Nos.3, 5 AND 7 Cauis House

GV II

House, now one retail shop and a department store. Early C18, much altered mid C20, especially to interior. Brick with roofs of black glazed pantiles. 2 storeys and attic storey in 7 bays divided into 2-3-2 rhythm, each articulated by brick giant pilasters with rendered block architraves rising to metope frieze. Above frieze is parapet elaborated into attic storey. Pediment with occulus over centre 3 bays. Central doorcase formed of a pair of Tuscan columns with a metope frieze supporting a dentilled pediment. Glazed C20 door. Second door to left and a plate glass shop display window immediately right. Both side groups of 2 bays filled with late C20 glazed shop fronts, forming the actual entrances. First floor lit through 7 sash windows with glazing bars, gauged skewback arches and keystones. 4 attic sashes. Hipped roof. Ridge stack left of centre. Cross wing runs south-west from south end in 2 builds: 2 storeys and dormer attic. Scattered fenestration of sash windows. Rear also with sashes and 3 hipped dormers in roof. Stacks on cross wing ridge. INTERIOR. Open string staircase with 3 twisted balusters on turned bases to each tread. Scrolled tread-ends. Moulded handrail and fluted newel columns. Panelled dado. Stairwell with cornice decorated with egg-and-dart and key interlace, said to be repeated under suspended ceiling of west ground-floor room. Interior largely opened into showroom.

Listing NGR: TG1085401601