1-5, High Street

CHACEWATER HIGH STREET (south side) Chacewater SW 74 SW 4/74 Nos 1 - 5 (consecutive) 30.5.67 GV II Terrace with shopfront, now house. Early/mid C19. Killas rubble walls with cambered brick arches with projecting keystones over most openings slate-hung first floor to right-hand end. Asbestos slate roofs with brick gable and axial chimneys hipped to right. Projecting eaves with shaped wooden brackets. Mostly 1-room double depth plans. 2 storeys. Regular 9-window north street front. Nos 1, 2 and 3, left have 4-paned horned sashes. Nos 4 and 5 have original 12-pane hornless sashes with wider central lights. Entrances to left or right all with C20 doors. Near centre, No.2 has wooden shopfront, the shop window now blocked and with sash window inserted, flanked by 2 pilastered doorways with traceried fanlights, the right-hand doorway wider and divided into 2 entrances. An entablature continues over the whole feature. Single storey 1-room addition with tapered room under flat lead roof to far right on street corner was further shop, now with C20 window. Slatehanging over with original 12-pane hornless sash. Interiors not inspected. Chacewater is notable for the survival of many C19 shopfronts, and this shopfront, although altered, is an interesting example.

Listing NGR: SW7495544383