Herald Office

FORE STREET 1. 1633 (East Side) Herald Office SY 1287 1/244 II GV 2. Early to mid C19 building on corner with East Street. 3 storeys colour washed brick. Low pitch gable end slate roof, shallow eaves bend. 1 window front. Tripartite 2nd floor window, centre sash only with glaz- ing bars, multiple keystone stucco flat arch, thin block sill. 1st floor has canted bay inserted below similar flat arch, no glazing bars. Frieze and cornice. Ground floor has Victorian shop front modernised but retain- ing 1 panelled pilaster and cornice with elaborate iron cresting returned to side on East Street. This south front has 3 sash windows, glazing bars intact, and a 2 storey round headed stair light sash, the glazing bars radiating at top. The premises are continued on this front by a 2 storey red brick building slightly earlier in date. 2 windows, 1 blind, recessed tripartite sashes, glazing bars intact, flat brick-arches. 2 doorways. One partly blocked but with rectangular fanlight and panelled reveals. The other of 6 fielded panels with tall rectangular fanlight.

Herald Office, No 23, Premises occupied by Olive Ltd. Premises occupied by Stead and Simpson, Premises occupied by The Spinning Wheel and Premises occupied by Irish Tobacconist form a group.

Listing NGR: SY1268887376