4 And 5, St John'S Street

Nos 4 and 5, St John’s Street, are a building dating to 1912, originally constructed as retail premises above a modern ground floor. The building occupies a corner location with Wine Street. It is a three-storey structure faced with florid stucco. The St John’s Street and Wine Street frontages are defined by banded rustication on the piers. The corner is rounded and features a scalloped copper dome topped with a domed lantern. A heavy cornice projects over the piers, incorporating modillions and a large egg and dart moulding to the corner. The parapet has flanking pilasters and stepped coping. The building has two windows facing St John’s Street and three windows facing Wine Street. The second-floor windows are recessed in architrave surrounds and stepped down at the top with a straight wreath moulding. Moulded sills have shaped aprons decorated with winged cherub heads. The first-floor windows are segment-headed, tripartite, and transomed with corkscrew colonettes framing the arched central light, the dentil transom extending over it. Two narrow second-floor windows are located on the corner, similar to the others, with a festoon at the top. Between these windows is a floral ribbon surround displaying a date. A cartouche is located between the floors, bearing the inscription "Boots Corner." The corner first-floor window is surrounded by an architrave and wreath moulding. The piers are notable for the large heads set within wreathed circular recesses with beribboned name plaques below. These portray historical figures or royalty associated with Devizes, including Roger, Bishop of Sarum, and Matilda facing St John's Street, and Hubert de Burgh, Edward I, Ralph Hopton, and Sir Thomas Lawrence facing Wine Street. The building possesses significant curiosity value.

(Nos 1 to 5 form a group).