Beadles

Beadles is a car showroom and offices built in 1910 by Frank Atkinson for Mr. J Beadle, designed in a Neo-Classical style. The building is constructed of stock brick with red brick dressings. The office section features a tiled roof with central and end brick stacks, and it has two to three storeys with four windows. Most of the windows are metal-framed casements, but the rear elevation includes a mezzanine floor with oculi, which now has late 20th-century UPVC replacement lights.

The side elevation displays an open pediment with a wooden cornice, rusticated pilasters at the ends, and giant round-headed arches on the ground floor, complete with keystones, impost blocks, and Gibbs surrounds. The pedimented gable features two diamond-shaped plaques dated 1910 and a central square stone tablet with a keystone, floral swag, and the initials JCB.

A large one-storey car showroom extends to the front, consisting of three by two bays. It has a flat roof with a parapet that includes a moulded cornice and a triglyph frieze. The front showcases a central open curved pediment supported by two rusticated brick Tuscan columns and two piers on each side, with corner rusticated piers. The sides are marked by rusticated brick piers flanking brick columns. Although the showroom windows were boarded up at the time of the survey, recent photographs indicate that at least the upper parts of the windows may be original. The interior has not been seen, but it likely retains a 12-panelled ceiling with roof lights, Tuscan columns, sirapite walls with moulded pilasters, and granolithic floors with Doloment panels.