2 AND 3, THE SQUARE (See details for further address information)

SU 6376 PANGBOURNE THE SQUARE (east side)

6/7 Nos. 2 And 3 (formerly listed as Lloyds Bank, Pangbourne Pharmacy, No.2 Midland Bank, Kennet Vintner Studio, R.S. Davies, Stanley Green) 7.12.71

G.V. II

Includes No.1 Reading Road and Nos. 2,4,6,8 and 10 Whitchurch Road. Row of 8 shops. Circa 1900, by Leonard Stokes in a free neo-Georgian style. Grey brick with red dressings. 2 large tile hung gables and tile roof, hipped to south-west. L-plan. 2 storeys and attic. Deep eaves and 4 stacks. One dormer to south with glazing bar sash, and one to west. 4 dormers to north-west with 2-light casements, and large slightly projecting gabled semi dormer between first and second from north with semi circular window. West front: large projecting gable off-centre to right with first floor jetted on brackets; two paired attic glazing bar sashes; first floor canted bay with glazing bar sashes, 2 set back flanking glazing bar sashes, and pulvinated frieze; 3 central ground floor windows separated by Tuscan pilasters, two 4-panelled doors set back to left, and 5-panelled door set back to right with oval fanlight. First floor glazing bar sash to right and 2 glazing bar sashes on corner to right with pulvinated frieze. Five first floor 4-light casements to left. Ground floor plate glass shop window to right and angled half glazed door in right-hand corner. Vehicular entrance to left, and five C20 shop fronts to left set back behind colonnade with timber clad square piers. South front: large projecting gable as west front but with 3 ground floor windows to right separated by pilasters and two 2-panelled doors to left with rectangular overlight. 2 first floor glazing bar sashes on corner to left with pulvinated frieze: Ground floor plate glass window to left. B.0.E, Berkshire, p.192; Berkshire Architectural Guide, BetJeman and Piper, Murray, 1949, p.137.

Listing NGR: SU6356276546