5 and 6, Broad Street

This is a shop with offices above, rebuilt around 1752 and altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of limestone ashlar to the front and rear, with a section of render above the carriage entrance at the rear. The roof is double-pile and parapeted, with a hipped section to the rear right; it is covered in pantiles to both front and rear. There is a small ashlar stack with two early clay pots rising from the front wall to the right, and another ashlar stack rising from the party wall to the left rear.

The building has a door giving access to the upper floors on the left, a 19th-century shopfront in the centre, and a carriage entrance giving access to the rear on the right. The front has three storeys and a basement, with a three-window facade. The first floor has three six/six sash windows in splayed cyma moulded architraves with friezes and cornices. The second floor has three six/six sash windows in similar cyma moulded architraves with stone sills. The ground floor has a mid-19th-century shopfront in the centre. To the left, a recessed six-panel door, approached by three pennant steps, has a cast iron wreath knocker and a decorative overlight with glazing now infilled. To the right is a carriage entrance with 20th-century gates. There are no basement openings. A band course sits above the carriage entrance, a sill band at the first floor, and a moulded eaves cornice with a coped parapet. The rear elevation has three grouped sash windows; a taller six/six sash at the centre is flanked by two/four or four/four sashes with continuous stone sills to each of the three floors. The ground floor retains rebates for external shutters, which are now missing. Above the carriage entrance, there are single six/six sashes to each floor, with 20th-century render. The interior has not been inspected.

The building was likely rebuilt around 1752, alongside much of the west side of Broad Street and in conjunction with the construction of King Edward’s Grammar School.