51, BUTTERWALK (See details for further address information)

1. 5180 HIGH STREET (Butterwalk) No 51 SX 8060 SW 1/67D 7.1.52.

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1. Late C16 or early C17 merchant's house of "deux corps de batiments" type, much altered, with the former kitchen block and small court incorporated as part of the main house in the late C19 when the ground floor was converted for use as a shop. In the C19 the house was used as a brush factory. The range at the rear was a candle factory. Refronted mid C19. 3½ storeys. 1st floor with 5 bays. Welsh slate roof with ornamental cresting. ½ hipped gable to street. Timber-framed, slate-hung front with jettied attic. Moulded bargeboard with pineapple drops at eaves. 1st floor with pilasters between window bays carrying fascia. Ground floor loggia over pavement carried on granite Tuscan columns. 2nd floor and attic with architraved sash windows. Modern shopfront. Masonry party walls, that on west side fronting former open passage to No 53 and retaining blocked, 2 light window with moulded reveals amd mullion and wrought iron stay bars. 1st floor room with remains of original square- headed fireplace with moulded surround and relieving arch over; part of Elizabethan decorated plaster ceiling with ribwork.

Listing NGR: SX8009260465