Clare Reed Opticians and J Perigoe and Son, Funeral Directors

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TQ 8224-8324 47/54

NORTHIAM DIXTER ROAD (west side) Clare Reed Opticians and J. Perigoe and Son, Funeral Directors

(Formerly listed as Seldons and Northiams Pet Store)

GV II House, now commercial premises. Early C19, altered later C19. Painted brick to ground floor; weatherboarded first floor. Welsh slate roof. Two storeys; 2:1 bays, the second bay having curved corner and the third bay set back. Left-hand bays have brick plinth to late C19 shop window which has slender columns and arches to windows; recessed central entrance with half-glazed door and overlight; and corniced fascia board with end pilasters. On first floor, two sixteen-pane sashes. Stack at left end. Right corner curved with board door on right. Set back third bay has replaced ground floor window; a sixteen-pane sash to first floor; and a truncated extruded stack at right end. Right return: right bay has a C20 door (on right of stack) with a window on each floor to its right, that on ground floor of four panes, that above a sixteen-pane sash.

Rear: truncated extruded stack on left; two windows to its right, one small-paned; to far right a gabled weatherboard extension with a sixteen-pane sash in its left side.

Single-storey brick outbuilding attached to rear not included in listing.

Included for group value.

Listing NGR: TQ8251724893