53, Union Street

UNION STREET 1. 1577 (West Side) No 53 SZ 5992 2/356

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1. Circa 1850. Corner site with Yelf's Road. Three storeys faced with stone coursed in imitation of brick. Rendered ground floor with heavy banded rustication, on plinth. Rendered rusticated quoins to sides and flanking inset curved corner. Rendered parapet with coping and panels of balusters separated by piers. Heavy cornice and frieze. Ground floor cornice. Superimposed flat fronted bow windows on first and second floors, to Union Street, of three lights each, sash, no glazing bars, panelled aprons, dentil cornice to second floor one. Second floor windows on corner and to Yelf's Road, recessed, sash, later glazing bars, in rendered architrave surrounds. First floor windows are similar, though taller, and have addition of segmental pediments. First floor corner window has small bowed cast iron balcony on stone brackets. Original round headed doorway and window of shop to Union Street. Keystone over door, block sill to window, plate glass. Ground floor windows to Yelf's Road large and segment headed with keystones, moulded sills. Two storey wing continues front along Yelf's Road, similar treatment of facade but with narrow round headed windows on first floor with Keystones, linked at the springing of the arches by a string course. The main cornice has a dentil band. Brick extension of two bays with rendered dressings to West.

Nos 44 to 53 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ5918892686