146, High Street

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SS5147 HIGH STREET 853-1/6/82 (South side) No.146

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House and shop. Probably built in 1890s. MATERIALS: rendered front. Solid right-hand side-wall visible from alley, covered with slate-hanging slated mansard roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with garret. 1-window wide. Good shopfront; display windows with angle-shafts supporting decorated brackets. Recessed shop door in centre; shell-carved, open pediment above. To right of shopfront a panel of blue and white tiles inscribed W H ANDREW PURVEYOR & FAMILY BUTCHER ESTD. 1855. Deep wood canopy on shaped brackets above whole ground storey. Second and third storeys have wooden, canted bay window in centre, finished in each storey with a bracketed cornice having quatrefoils between the brackets. Panelled base to second-storey window; slated pent roof to window in third storey. Sash windows with panels of coloured glass above them; upper sashes have glazing bars forming margin-panes. Dentilled top cornice broken by large, 2-light dormer window with flat top; this has sashes with one upright glazing bar per sash. To right, set back and spanning the alley, is a rendered structure containing a 12-light sash window. INTERIOR not inspected. The building forms a group with Nos 145 (The Victoria) & No.147 (qv). WH Andrew, butcher, appears at this address (then 130 High Street) in Kelly's Directory of Devonshire between 1883 & 1906, but not in 1910. (Kelly's Directory of Devonshire: 1883-1906).

Listing NGR: SS5194547658