41 London Street

Commercial building, constructed between 1845 and 1875, extended to the rear during the late C19. The building is currently (2023) in use as offices.

MATERIALS: red brick with ashlar Bath Stone and grey stone dressings and slate-covered roofs.

PLAN: the building is of three storeys and has an L-shaped plan, with a larger original range to the west fronting onto London Street and a smaller later range to the rear (east), extending along the southern plot boundary.

EXTERIOR: the principal (west) elevation onto London Street is of three bays. It is designed in a loosely Italianate style, with a symmetrical grid of three round-arched openings on each floor with round arches of alternating grey and Bath Stone voussoirs and raised keystones. Each round arch has a hood mould with floral stops, with moulded imposts unifying the arches. All but one of the openings contain a two-over-two, timber sash window with a round-arched upper sash, and a sill beneath supported on corbels, projecting from a sill band. The exception is the southernmost opening on the ground floor, which contains a wide, six-panelled door with a radiating fanlight above. At the top of the elevation is a heavy Bath Stone cornice with modillions.

The original, western range has a pitched roof with an east-west slope and a hipped, full-width projection to the rear, while the lower height roof of the eastern extension comprises two, intersecting, hipped elements. A brick chimney stack rises through the northern slope of the hipped roof over the rear section of the western range.

There is understood to be heavy timber framing to the ground floor visible from the through passage between 41 and 39 London Street.

The rear (east) elevation of the primary range and the north elevation of the later extension contain ranges of timber sash windows. The south elevation of the building is rendered and blank.