23 Cathedral Yard And 55 And 56 High Street

SX 9192 NE CATHEDRAL YARD 871/2/10061 23 23-JUN-00 HIGH STREET (Northeast side) 55 AND 56

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Shop with offices above. c.1880s possibility of earlier core. Bath stone ashlar with red brick dressings and slate roof with spikey ridge tiles. Gothic Revival. Plan: Deep rectangular plan. Exterior: 4 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a steep, coped gable to the front with kneelers and a finial at the apex; stone mullioned windows. Shop front obscured for renovations at time of inspection. The centre bay rises to a moulded arched head in the gable. Outer windows are set in recesses to left and right. On the first floor the central bay contains a canted oriel with a modillion frieze, glazed with one-light high-transomed windows with blind trefoiled heads. To right and left similar flush windows have panels of flamboyant tracery above the lintels; similar windows above, 3-light to the centre bay and 2-light to the flanking bays with modillion frieze above panels of decorated style blind tracery. Third floor window to the centre bay only. 3-high transomed lights, the upper lights with arched heads below a brick herringbone tympanum containing a cinquefoil. Moulded cornices on modillion brackets extend across the outer bays at the transom level of the 3rd floor window. INTERIOR: Not inspected, but may retain features of interest. The building to rear of Nos: 55 and 56 faces onto Cathedral Yard and is built in a similar style (No.23, Cathedral Yard q.v.). This is a good example of a Victorian Gothic commercial front.

Listing NGR: SX9200092622