14 and 14a, Chatham Row

This is a mid-18th century corner shop and residential building at 14 and 14A Chatham Row. It was originally designed as the right-hand end of the buildings on the south side of Chatham Row, intended to be similar in appearance to the corner buildings at 118 Walcot Street and 12 Chatham Row. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with a mansard roof. The roof is hipped at the corner, with pantiles on the upper slopes and slate on the lower slopes, and a central ridge stack.

The building is three storeys high, with an attic and basement. It has one window facing Chatham Row and two windows facing Walcot Street. A returned coped parapet, cornice, and ground-floor platband are present. The upper floors feature six-pane sash windows in moulded architraves. A vertical joint marks the boundary with the adjacent building at 13A. The Chatham Row facade has a balconette above the central tripartite window on the second floor. The first floor has a Venetian window, with thick entablatures to the flanking lights. A six-panel door, glazed at the top, with an overlight, is located on the left side of the Chatham Row facade. The end of the bressummer above the door acts as a lintel. The Walcot Street facade has cornices above two first-floor windows and the second-floor window on the left is blind. An early 20th-century corner shop occupies the corner, with a recessed two-pane door and overlight. The plate glass shop windows on both facades have turned colonnettes with moulded caps and bases, flanked by pilasters with recessed panels supporting fluted, gabled consoles to the fascia and cornice. A bressummer extends over a single six-pane sash window on the ground floor to the right. The interior was not inspected. Number 14 was formerly "The Carpenters' Arms" public house from 1800 until at least 1833.