49, Commercial Street

SE 7971 NORTON-ON-DERWENT COMMERCIAL STREET (north side) 9/29 No 49 (originally known as Freer's Family Butcher)

II Butcher's shop with flat above. 1912 on datestone. Red brick in Flemish bond to front, with glazed tile shop front; variegated brick in garden wall bond to sides; sandstone dressings; slate roof. 2-storey, 4-window front. 6-panel doors with overlights and shaped lintels to left and right of shopfront. Shopfront, on plinth, has plain pilasters enriched with wheatear drops and guttae supporting a full, dentilled, entablature with open pediment to centre. The tympanum encloses a bull's head in high relief within a roundel decorated with swags. Central half-glazed shop door beneath keyed segment-arched overlight has doorcase of enriched Ionic columns on pedestals. Mosaic floor panel in doorway displays original butcher's name. Shop windows are plate glass to left and large-pane sash to right, and are raised on risers of recessed rectangular panels with chamfered corners. To first floor, paired narrow single-pane sashes with shaped lintels and sills flank the rectangular datestone in plain surround. Egg and dart moulded eaves course. Perforated ridge tiles to roof, and end stacks. Interior: wall to left retains original decorative tiling and dado rail. Shop window to left is tiled with lozenge-shaped panel to centre containing bull's head.

Listing NGR: SE7943671421