Cramphorns And Cartwrights

Cramphorns and Cartwrights is a pair of shops with offices above, formerly known as Primrose House, dating from the early 19th century. The building has five windows and three storeys, featuring rendered walls with a string course at the second floor. It has a hipped, slated roof with chimneys made of gault brick. The first and second floors have small-pane sash windows. The entrance doorway showcases details in the Adam style, including a six-panel door with fielded central panels and glazed upper panels featuring intricate tracery, along with an oblong fanlight that has similar tracery. The doorway is framed by panelled reveals, an architrave, and Adam-style Doric columns that support an enriched frieze, with limestone steps leading up to it. The left and right sides have mid-20th century shop fronts. Inside, there are six-panel doors and other original internal joinery and plaster friezes on the first floor.