32, Milsom Street

This is a house, now used as shops, a restaurant, a workshop, and a flat, dating from approximately 1761 to 1765. It may have been designed by Thomas Jelly. Shopfronts were added in 1902 by Silcock and Reay, and in 1920 by J Foster and Son. The front of the building is faced with limestone ashlar, now painted, while the rear features ashlar. It has a double-pile, parapeted mansard roof, with artificial slate to the front slope and double Roman and Welsh slate to the rear slope. A coped party wall incorporates two ashlar stacks to the right, and a smaller ashlar stack sits against the party wall to the rear left.

The building’s original rear wing is one bay wide, forming a lean-to against the flank wall of the adjoining building at number 33 Milsom Street. A further extension is present, featuring a part-glazed roof.

The front elevation is three storeys high, with an attic, and a basement. The first floor has three casement windows with tilting lights, set within ovolo moulded architraves with splayed jambs, friezes, cornices, and a pediment to the centre. The second floor has three six-paned sashes in eared ovolo moulded architraves, rising from stone sills. The ground floor features a shopfront to the right, with curved plate glass windows and round timber mullions with carved capitals. To the left is a former doorway, now an open corridor lined with glazed display cases. There are no basement openings. Two dormers with six-paned sashes are present on the roof. A modillion eaves cornice sits above a coped parapet which continues with that of number 33 Milsom Street. The rear elevation, partially visible, has six-paned sashes within moulded architraves.

Inside, a scissor string timber staircase has turned balusters and a mahogany grip handrail. The staircase hall features an enriched moulded cornice with friezes of masks and swags, and a timber arch with reeded pilasters and a panelled soffit. The building's group value is derived from its architectural and historical significance within the Milsom Street context.