21 And 23, West Street

WITHERIDGE WEST STREET (south side), - SS 81 SW Witheridge 9/104 Nos. 21 and 23

GV II House and house with shop on ground floor. Mid C19. Roughcast on a rubble core, slate roof hipped to the right, tall rendered stack which is to the right. Plan and development: No.21 a symmetrical house with a central lobby entrance with staircase, room to each side, No.23 an attached house of similar plan but at right- angles to the street. Exterior: 2 storeys, asymmetrically spaced 4 first floor windows, C19 12-pane sash windows with exposed sash boxes, thin glazing bars, wood cills. Door opening to left of ground floor, mid C19 4-panelled door with a transom light, ledge porch on mid C19 ornamental cast-iron brackets. Shop front to right of ground floor, early to mid C19, large 3-pane window half-glazed door to right, wooden pilasters flanking the whole with a fascia and ledge cornice. Further C20 door opening inserted to the left of the ground floor. Occupies a prominent corner position. Interior: No.21 with left ground floor room, now converted to a shop with a fireplace in reeded stone surround, cupboard in chimneybreast alcove with door removed. The rest of the interior was not seen.

Listing NGR: SS8034014452