Frontiers

Frontiers, formerly known as Nos. 21 and 23 Sheppards Place, is a house dating from 1694, now serving as a shop and residential space. It is constructed from coursed squared limestone rubble and features a stone slate roof, with concrete tiles at the rear and a stone stack on the right end. The building has two gables on the front, stands two storeys tall with an attic, and has a four-window range.

On the first floor, there are four 19th-century two-light timber casements set in chamfered stone surrounds, complete with stone mullions and transoms that have been cut out. Above these, two additional two-light timber casements with glazing bars are also in similar surrounds, featuring renewed concrete lintels in the gables. The ground floor has a shop front from the 19th century, which has undergone some 20th-century alterations, including two three-light plate glass windows, a timber fascia, and a moulded timber cornice above. The central half-glazed door is from the 19th century, and a 20th-century timber plant box on the exposed timber lintel above the door is supported by small carved timber brackets, likely from the 19th century.

To the left of the shop front is a through-passage to Sheppard's Place, framed by a stone surround with moulded jambs and a lintel that features incised lettering reading "SHEPPARD'S PLACE" and "ABM 1694" on the keystone. A moulded string course runs above the first-floor windows, and there is a 20th-century hanging sign bracket at the centre of the first floor. The interior has not been inspected. This house was previously connected internally to No. 19 Gloucester Street, which is now a separate dwelling. Incorporated into the rear wall to the right at the far end of the passage to Sheppard's Place is a stone Doric column, said to be Roman, while to the left is a timber replacement for the column that is now housed in the Corinium Museum.