18 Gowthorpe

Former public house, now restaurant and main entranceway to the Abbey Walk Shopping Centre, early to mid-C19, with C20 and C21 alterations.

MATERIALS: stuccoed and fair-faced brick, sandstone door surrounds and pitched pantile roofs.

PLAN: trapezoidal two-bay plan with a carriage passageway.

EXTERIOR: the ground-floor of the main (south) elevation has a modern double-fronted late-C19 style shop front with panelled stalls risers, transom lights, and windows flanking the recessed and splayed entrance, closed by a half-glazed panelled door. Panels of horizontally channelled stone walling exist to either side of the window. A moulded timber fascia above the transom windows is attached below the level of the original painted stone fascia, which continues above a carriage arch with a moulded four-centred head and keystone, raised on a plinth, with a plain architrave on both sides. The stuccoed first floor has rusticated corners and the fascia has a raised and moulded cornice that forms a sill band beneath two windows; one with a late-C19 four-light sash and the other with a modern four-light casement, both within moulded architraves below a moulded stuccoed eaves cornice. The building does not share the same alignment as the adjacent 20 Gowthorpe; consequently, the rendered west gable wall is partially exposed to the rear and it has ashlar coping and an apex chimney stack. The roof is drained by a mixture of plastic and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The east side elevation, flanking the former carriage passageway, has a modern double-fronted shop window, set between channelled stone walling and a central stone doorcase raised on a plinth, which has a moulded four-centred head and a keystone. The rear brick elevation of the over-sailing room above the passageway is built using English garden wall bond with a relieving arch and a blocked window. The fair-faced two-storey, two-bay east elevation of the rear range was built using small bricks laid in a mixed garden wall bond, it has two modern four-light sashes to the ground floor on concrete sills and a single central sash to the first floor. The north gable is canted and steeply pitched, and is partially exposed above the roof of an adjacent property. It has ashlar stone coping, a rendered ridge stack towards the centre of the roof, and it is drained by timber rainwater gutters.