32 Church Hill

Shop with accommodation over, early to mid-C19, altered C20.

MATERIALS: fair-faced brick, slate roof to front range, pantile roof to rear range.

PLAN: front range aligned roughly east-west, with canted north wall, and long rear range extending 14.5m to the south-west.

EXTERIOR: facing north onto the street. The three-storey, two-bay facade is in English Garden Wall bond brickwork, and cants away slightly beyond bay 1. The ground floor has a double-fronted shopfront, with the recessed central entrance in bay 2 (with mosaic floor), flanked by glazed window panels. The shopfront has fluted and panelled pilasters, with consoles that have gabled caps to either side of a canted fascia, below a billeted cornice. The corner posts are turned above transom level, and the transoms are moulded, with four hooks fixed to the right-hand transom. The shopfront has C20 glazing bars (three panes to the left, two to the right), with a low broad timber sill, above a shallow stall riser. The first and second floors each have two flush-framed four-pane casement windows set in moulded surrounds, with slightly projecting painted stone sills, and wedge lintels. The pitched roof has a brick ridge chimney stack at each end and is drained by plastic rainwater goods, attached to a timber eaves board.