94 London Street

A late C18 townhouse with a C19 shop front to the ground floor.

MATERIALS: the building is constructed from red brick laid in Flemish bond with stone dressings; it has a glazed timber shop front and slate and tiled roofs with a brick chimneystack.

PLAN: the plot is orientated roughly east-to-west on the west side of London Street. The earliest part of the building is the roughly north-south range facing on to the street, which had a carriageway on the north side, now infilled. There is a later perpendicular range to the rear and a late-C20 infill block behind the former carriageway, both excluded from the listing.

There is a single room within each floor of the front range, with a stair to the rear.

EXTERIOR: the building is three stories with a cellar beneath the front range. The ground floor of the principal, east-facing elevation has a shop front on the left, and a former carriageway entrance, now infilled with doors, on the right; a fascia with moulded console brackets runs across the elevation. The shop front has a limestone plinth and a panelled stallriser, and a large window with a single, slender mullion and transom creating four lights. The door, three-quarters glazed, is recessed; the returns are panelled and glazed, and there is a rectangular overlight. The first and second floors each have two windows with flat gauged brick arches and projecting cills. Each window has a six-over-six pane sash, those on the second floor are of a slightly smaller scale. A limestone storey band divides the first and second floors, and there is a moulded cornice to the parapet, behind which the pitched roof is not visible.

At the rear of the building are the Victorian and late-C20 additions, excluded from the listing.

INTERIOR: the principal rooms retain moulded plasterwork, door and window architraves and skirtings. The original sash windows survive, and on the first floor they have panelling beneath the cills. The stair, a dog-leg that rises from the ground to the second floor, has been refurbished with modern newels replicating the form of the originals, and has stick balusters.