17-19 Gowthorpe

Shop with accommodation over, early to mid-C19, with C20 and C21 alterations. Formerly listed as 15 and 17 Gowthorpe.

MATERIALS: stuccoed and fair-faced brick, semi-hipped cement tile roofs.

PLAN: sub-rectangular plan.

EXTERIOR: the ground-floor of the main (north) elevation has a large modern plate glass shop window to the left and a modern double-fronted shop front to the right with a window occupying a former canted corner entrance position, and a side window to Audus Street. The shop front has projecting sills and plain recessed painted stall risers, there is also a plain deep fascia. The stuccoed first floor has a pair of casement windows beneath painted flat lintels. The east elevation has a coped gable with kneelers and has been partially stuccoed and painted, with the remainder being fair-faced brickwork, with a small casement window to the first and attic floors. The north-west corner is rounded, with a rectangular painted ashlar panel inscribed: AUDUS STREET, with a date that reads: 1840. The west elevation has a blind ground floor with a semi-glazed door to the right; the first floor has a pair of horned sash windows that have exposed sash boxes beneath flat lintels, with projecting painted ashlar sills. The rear (south) elevation is predominantly obscured by the attached number 2 Audus Street; only the right-hand bay is exposed and has a first-floor doorway flanked by a casement window. The doorway leads out onto the roof of a modern flat-roofed extension, built against the ground-floor elevation. The semi-hipped roof has timber eaves fascia boards, supporting plastic guttering that is drained by cast-iron storm boxes and down-pipes.