65, Fore Street

FORE STREET 1. 5411 (North West Side) No 65 ST 8558 5/73 29.l2.50.

II GV 2. Early C18. 2 storey and cellar. Brick on stone plinth. Chamfered bonded quoins. Moulded stone string at 1st floor level, broken forward over quoins and keystones to glazing bar sash windows. Stone frieze and moulded cornice with blocking course. The front to Wicker Hill has 3 arched windows in stone architraves with keystones, the centre ground floor window in Doric surround of pilasters and entablature, possibly a former doorway. Cellar grilles under windows. The building has a return to right hand of similar design with 2 windows on 1st floor, 1 on ground floor and 6-panel door in right hand corner with stone surround of architrave and flat moulded stone hood on cut stone scroll brackets, lining with 1st floor string. A projecting wing to right facing south east has an early C19 bow window on ground floor, brought here from elsewhere and a window above. Facing east is a mid C19 shop window with fluted pilasters and a blocked doorway with moulded architrave to left.

Nos 65 to 68 (consec), Nos 70 to 73 (consec), railings and gates to Nos 68 and 70, dwarf stone wall to No 72, No 64 (Lloyds Bank) and Usher's Brewery Corner Block, form an outstanding group with No 8 and premises occupied by K.J. Lestor to south west of No 8 Wicker Hill.

Listing NGR: ST8552458068