31, New Street

NEW STREET 1. 1594 (South Side) No 31 SU 1429 NW 3/112 28.2.52. II GV 2. C18, late, 2 storeys and attic, brick hand at 1st floor level, brick denticulated cornice, parapet. Old tile roof half hipped to left hand. Gable ends and cheeks of dormers tile hung. An unsymmetrical elevation on 2 axes. Left hand axis, 1 hipped dormer window with Yorkshire casement at attic level. 1 4-panel window at 1st floor level. 1 door on ground floor - 6 fielded panels with moulded architrave surround and rectangular fanlight with elliptical, radiating and wreathed glazing pattern. Wrought iron with cast lead ornament. The door opens into a small octagonal hall. Right hand axis: 1 dormer window with moulded pediment 2-light C19 casement at attic level. 1 wide 1-storey cantilevered angular bay window at 1st floor level with 4-pane centre window and 2 paned side windows all with moulded architrave surrounds. Plain frieze and moulded, denticulated cornice over, head flat. Panelled aprons to bay. 2 windows on groundfloor with panelled shutters, sashes, glazing bars intact. Interior has fine C18 fireplaces with marble inner surrounds and fine mantles that in lst floor drawing room with ovolo moulding to architrave, scroll consoles to frieze, female mask to centre swags with leaf and rose decoration. Good staircase, columnar balusters on closed string moulded handrail.

Nos 22 to 49 (odd), the School of Arts and Crafts, Nos 61, 63 and Nos 67 to 75 (odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: SU1441129769