11 And 11A, St James'S Street

This is a shop with living accommodation above, dating from circa 1790-1793, with later 19th and 20th century additions. It was designed by John Palmer. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar, with a Welsh slate parapeted roof, featuring hipped angles and an ashlar stack shared with the adjacent property at No.10 St James’s Street.

The building occupies a corner site at the junction of St James's Street and Julian Road. The front to St James's Street has a symmetrical, single-window range over three storeys and a basement. The first floor has a six-over-six sash window within a splayed reveal, featuring a wrought iron balconette. The second floor has a similar sash window in a plain reveal with a stone sill. The ground floor features an early 19th-century timber shopfront, modified in the 20th century; a two-light projecting plate glass window sits on timber brackets, flanked by panelled pilaster strips and a frieze, topped with a projecting moulded cornice. This shopfront extends to a narrower splayed corner on the left, with a 20th-century glazed door and overlight, also framed by panelled pilaster strips and a projecting moulded cornice. The remainder of this corner and a further splayed angle are blind. The wider front to Julian Road has a six-over-six sash window with a stone sill and a simple balconette on the first floor, and a matching window without a balconette on the second floor. The ground floor has a 20th-century glazed door approached by two projecting pennant steps, with a small, chamfered basement opening to the right, now filled with glass bricks. The elevation at the corner on the left is blind. The building is consistently dressed with architectural detailing on all visible facades, including a band course over the ground floor to the second splayed corner and the Julian Road elevation, and a sill band which is continuous with Nos. 9 & 10 St James's Street on the St James's Street elevation. Moulded eaves cornices and a coped parapet are also continuous with Nos. 9 & 10 St James’s Street on each elevation. A lead hopperhead is present on the Julian Road elevation. The blind elevation to the left, with projecting stones, suggests that a further range of buildings along Julian Road was originally planned but never constructed.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process, but previous site visits noted the survival of a staircase with Doric column newel posts and fireplaces with cast iron grates.