92 London Street

Former townhouse, now offices. Built in the early C19, possibly incorporating an earlier C18 core, with late-C20 alterations to the rear, west elevation.

MATERIALS: the front, east elevation of 92 London Street is red brick laid in Flemish bond with a cement-rendered parapet. The shopfront is timber. The rear, west elevation is darker brown brick laid in stretcher bond with red brick detailing around the windows. The roof is clay plain tile.

PLAN: a three-storey townhouse with basement.

EXTERIOR: the principal, east elevation of 92 London Street is arranged across three bays. The ground floor has a late-C19 timber shopfront with fascia pilasters, capitals and brackets surrounding two glazed, canted shop windows and a central doorway accessed from street level via a flight of stone steps. At the northern end of the shopfront is a separate, C20 panelled door to the floors above, similarly accessed via a flight of stone steps. The first and second storeys contain three identical bays of six-over-six sash windows. These windows have gauged red brick lintels, red brick jambs and painted cills. There is a broad parapet which has been cement-rendered. It is covered by two hipped roofs, one of which has a skylight.

The rear, west elevation was altered in the 1990s and has three bays to each storey. The northernmost bay at the ground-floor level contains a rear access doorway. It is topped by a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. The two windows at the ground-floor level are six-over-six sashes. There are similar windows to the three bays at the first and second floor levels. Each window has red brick jambs and a gauged brick lintel. At the parapet level there is a simple brick dentil cornice supporting the roof eave.