66, Walcot Street

WALCOT STREET 656-1/31/1796 (East side) No.66 12/05/72

GV II

House with smaller shop to right. House c1750, shop c1790. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, pantile roofs with moulded stacks to left of house and right of shop. PLAN: Double depth virtually L-plan with rear range of shop completing rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: Three storeys and basement, three-window front to house. Two storeys and basement to shop, single window front. Both have coped parapets and cornices, those to house encircle it in simpler form. Six/six-pane sash windows. House has moulded architraves to upper floors, those to first floor have pediments, ground floor platband and rubblestone plinth, six steps up to set back six-panel door glazed to top to right, doorcase with Tuscan pilasters and pediment at level of ground floor, platband with narrow blind window to right. Canted range to far right has two-pane overlight and wide door. Shop attached to right and part of same property, has plain frieze and one window to centre of first floor, ground floor platband returned to right, C20 door to left and blocked shop window with plain fascia and moulded sill. Rear range single storey. INTERIOR: Most of C18 stone fireplaces and hob grates remain, rooms to left have panelled dados, that to first floor left has panelled cupboards flanking the fire, timber mantle shelf and egg-and-dart cornice with foliate frieze. Dog-leg staircase has wide mahogany handrail and turned balusters. HISTORY: This house has undergone extensive alteration, having been used up until the 1970s for cattle-market related use (it housed the Fatstock Marketing Corporation in 1973).

Listing NGR: ST7507565226