6-24 and former St Alban's Public House, Promenade

This is a terrace of ten shops, built in 1890. It is likely designed by WH Knight, and continues the design of numbers 2 and 4 Promenade.

The building is two storeys and an attic, with 13 plus 1 first-floor windows, extending at a right angle. It is constructed of ashlar facing brick, with polished granite columns and a mansard roof covered in slate, featuring tall brick party-wall stacks. The architectural style is French Renaissance, particularly evident in the bracketed pediments over the cross-mullioned first-floor windows and the pedimented ashlar dormers. There is a bracketed sill string and a cornice with swagged corbels to the dividing piers on the first floor. The original arcaded ground floor treatment has survived on the corner and on the right-hand return, which formerly housed the St Alban’s Public House. A rounded corner features a square oriel above, with deeply carved transom panels and shaped pediments to a dormer window above. The adjacent shop to the left has Corinthian columns at the entrance, an angled oriel above, dated panels in the transom windows, and a shaped gable to the dormer.

The interior has not been inspected.

The Promenade itself was laid out in 1818 as a tree-lined avenue connecting the High Street Colonnade with the Sherborne Spa (where the Queen’s Hotel now stands).

This terrace forms a group with numbers 2 and 4 Promenade (Midland Bank).