35, Milsom Street

This is a three-storey house, now used as a shop and workshop, dating to approximately 1762, with alterations made in 1927. Plans for the buildings on Milsom Street were approved in 1761. It may have been designed by Thomas Jelly, and the shopfront was added in 1927 by AJ Taylor.

The front of the building is faced with limestone ashlar, while the rear is a combination of ashlar and rubble, topped with a mansard roof. The roofline includes double Roman tiles and ashlar stacks with some early clay pots rising from a coped party wall to the right, and two stacks from the rear wall. The front has a three-window facade, with plate glass sash windows on the first floor set within splayed, ovolo-moulded architraves. The second floor also has sash windows with similar architraves and stone sills. The ground floor features a 1927 shopfront with a plate glass window and a curved pane, leading to a lobby with a pair of half-glazed doors and overlight, all framed by panelled pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice. Glass blocks are set into the pavement to illuminate the basement. Two dormers with sash windows are visible from the street. There is a modillion eaves cornice and a coped parapet. A lead hopperhead and downpipe are shared with the adjacent building at No. 34 Milsom Street. The rear elevation, partially visible, has eight/eight sash windows to the second half-landing and second floor, and two dormers with sash windows.

Inside, the house retains a timber staircase with moulded strings, turned balusters, and painted hardwood moulded tops. The stairwell has six-panelled doors with original architraves and skirtings. Original shutters are present on the first floor, a six-panelled door on the second floor, and cavetto cornices throughout. Some windows contain crown glass. Original fireplaces remain, including one with a timber mantel, and some original doors complete with hinges. One 18th-century fireplace has been re-tiled with 20th-century tiles.