Number 5 Kingsbury

A shop premises at ground floor level with accommodation above which now serves as storage and office space. Late-C18 or early-C19 with a later-C19 shop front.

MATERIALS & PLAN: Plate glass shop windows with brick piers to either side and wood and metal mullions. First floor walling is of painted brick with sash windows at first floor level. Plain tiled roof covering with flat-roofed dormers. Two storeys with attic and basement.

EXTERIOR: Number 5 has a ground-floor shop front with a central doorway and lobby at either side of which are large plate-glass shop windows. The risers are plain and the deep fascia connects with the first-floor canted bay window. The first floor has colour-washed brickwork and a stepped brick cornice at eaves level. The canted bay window is placed to left of centre and has horned sashes and may originally have been an oriel like the one on Number 3 to its right, but it is now joined to the shop fascia below. The flat-roofed oriel above has a sash widow and its flanks are clad with lead.

INTERIOR: the basement, which is now approached through a trap door at ground floor level, has two rooms and a passage to the eastern side with brick steps leading up to former ground-floor passageway. The ground floor has been opened out and the upper floors are supported by columns, with an enclosed staircase in the north-eastern corner. Ceiling beams are encased and some ceilings are C20 and suspended. Original flooring has been overlayed or replaced. The first-floor oriel window overlooking the street has a moulded surround and boarded sides. One first-floor ceiling retains its cornice. A framed wall in the attic has a blocked doorway and original plaster. The roof has two ranks of purlins which appear to include re-used timbers.