5, Broad Street

LAUNCESTON

SX3284 BROAD STREET 660-1/4/6 (South East side) 13/09/72 No.5 (Formerly Listed as: BROAD STREET (South East side) Nos.1-7 (Odd))

GV II

Town house with later shop. C17; front remodelled mid C19. Stucco on timber frame jettied to upper floors; slatehanging to visible left-hand return; rag-slate roof; original rubble stack on left with ramped entablature later heightened with brick. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 2-window range. Mid C19 sixteen-pane hornless sashes to 2nd floor over paired 4-pane hornless sashes within recessed segmentally-arched panels. Ground floor has late C19 double shop front with slender clustered columns, return lights at end; splayed central doorway and C20 fascia (obscuring original fascia) under jetty with acanthus cornice and scrolled brackets. Pair of keyed round-arched doorways on right (including entrance to No.7) with blind fanlights over moulded cornices and 6-panel doors with top panels later glazed. INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be of interest.

Listing NGR: SX3319884557