No 2 Including No 1 High Street

The following building shall be added to the list:

SU 3645 NW ANDOVER BRIDGE STREET 4/95 (North Side) No. 2 including No. 1 High Street

GV II Item includes No. 1 High Street. House now 2 shops C18, probably early-mid altered C19 and C20. Rendered and painted brick and timber studwork with brick infill; plain tile roof. 2 storeys with attic. 2 x 2 bays, No. 1 High Street with C20 rear extension (not of special interest). High Street elevation has: Mid C20 shop front on right with 4-pane sash over; and on left, bowed shop window on corner with curved glass panes over low stall riser, slender pilasters, narrow fascia, corniced flat roof supporting large wooden letters reading 'TOBACCONIST': To right of this shop window is C20 door, and above it a 4-pane sash with moulded wooden hood. Dentilled and moulded wooden eaves cornice, broken by right-hand window. Hipped roof with parallel ridges running behind at right angles and hipped at rear ends. Left return (Bridge Street): on right the curved shop window returns. On left is a C19 shop front with narrow pilasters supporting deep fascia; low glazed brick stall risers; central doorway in angled recess; and slender columns with bulbous bases and capitals to windows. On 1st floor a 4-light wooden casement window with transom and moulded timber hood. Eaves treatment as before. Gabled dormer with casement window. Rendered stack at left end. Interior: No. 2 Bridge Street has: Leaded casement secondary windows above low cupboards to the wider shop front and some decoratively - bracketed shelves across mirror. C19 stair; on 1st floor dado panelling (removed at front) and fireplace with dentilled and flinted cornice (and later iron inset); in attic, roof truss has tie-beam and collar. No. 1 High Street: On 1st floor, late C19 board doors and partitions; queen strut roof truss, with purlins carried on principal rafters. The building is on an important corner site in the historic centre of the town. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SU3656546197