15, Cornhill

No. 15 Cornhill is a shop built in 1910 by Michael Vyne Treleavan for Sir Joseph Boot, showcasing an exuberant Jacobethan style. The building is constructed of brick with ornate render and features plaintiles. It stands three storeys high and has three canted bays on the first storey, each with mullion-and-transom windows. The outer windows are four-light, while the central window is six-light, all adorned with diamond-leaded panes in the top lights. Flanking the windows are four niches with semicircular shell tops, each containing life-size figures of a Roman warrior, St Edmund, Edward I, and Edward VI, all dressed in period costumes, with cartouches above them.

On the second storey, the outer canted mullioned bay windows are supported by bracketed shafts and feature oriel bases decorated with leaf scrolls, swags, and masks. The central square six-light bay window has a moulded timber base with a leaf motif and is coved below with vine trails and a winged cherub head. Above the first storey windows is a raised timber band embellished with leaf-scroll ornament. Between the second storey windows are plaster panels in low relief, showcasing strapwork and caryatids. The building has wide eaves that overhang three gables projecting from the front slope of the roof. The central gable is larger than the two outer ones, all of which feature panelled plasterwork in their pediments. The outer gables have strapwork and cartouches, while the central pediment displays a seated medieval monarch surrounded by three other figures. Ornate hanging finials adorn the gables, and the barge-boards are decorated with carved motifs. The ground storey has a late 20th-century shop front. The interior has not been inspected.