110 and 114 London Street

Pair of houses constructed in the late C18, altered in the C19.

MATERIALS: brick with white-painted stucco east elevation, timber shopfronts and iron balcony. The roof is covered with clay tiles.

PLAN: single, rectangular plan, three-storey plus basement range divided on the ground floor by a passage giving access to 112 London Street to the rear. Number 110 occupies the two northern bays of the building, while number 114 occupies the three southern bays.

EXTERIOR: the east elevation has two timber shopfronts. The shopfront of number 114, contains an original doorcase to the north of a full-height glazed shop window, probably inserted during the later C20. On each side of the shopfront are slender reeded wooden Corinthian engaged columns. Number 110 has a C21 replacement shopfront with raised and fielded timber panelling in an imitation historic style. Separating the shopfronts of the two properties is a covered passage extending east-west, with a rectangular overlight with circular ornament and a wrought iron gateway.

The first and second floors both contain five bays of timber sash windows. On the first floor, these are six-over-nine glazed, full-height windows while on the second floor, they have three-over-six glazing. The first floor carries an iron fretwork balcony across the whole width of the elevation.

There is a wooden dentil eaves cornice to the building’s H-shaped roof, which is composed of three pitched roofs, two extending north-south over the east and western halves of the building, and an east-west gable roof joining them at the centre.

Two chimney stacks are located over the party wall between 114 London Street and 116-128 London Street to the south.

INTERIOR: the ground floor and a large section of the basement of number 114 were altered in the C21 to suit the function as office and storage spaces. However, there is an unaltered vaulted section of the cellar.