The Carlton

The Carlton is a row of 6 shops with dwellings above, occupying numbers 14 to 24 Bangor Street. Built in the Victorian period, it exemplifies bold and enriched classical architecture across 3 storeys with an attic. The walls are painted roughcast and the roof is slate, retaining mainly original thick slates though partly renewed.

Each premises occupies 2 bays, with number 14 on the right-hand side being narrower than the rest. The ground-storey shop fronts are framed by bold fluted Ionic pilasters with fascia and cornice incorporating a dentil frieze. At number 22 these pilasters have been cut through where a late 19th-century shop front was inserted, though the cornice of the original fascia remains partly visible. Above the shops, each premises is framed by panelled pilasters separately articulated to each floor, rising to an entablature and a deep bracketed eaves cornice.

The middle storey features windows with moulded sill bands, Corinthian pilasters and moulded tympana decorated with anthemion and other relief foliage, the moulding continuing as an impost band. The capitals to the pilasters are missing at numbers 18, 20 and 22. Number 22 retains its original 4-pane sash windows while windows in the other properties have been replaced. The upper storey windows have a corbelled sill band and moulded keyed architraves. Numbers 20, 22 and 24 retain original 4-pane sash windows; the remainder have been replaced. The end premises at numbers 14 and 24 retain their original dormers. On the left side, number 24 has a pair of 4-pane sash windows, though the gable has been removed. On the right side is a pair of replaced windows beneath a cornice on foliage-enriched consoles, a gable with plain barge boards and a semi-circular panel decorated with anthemion and other relief foliage. The original shop front of number 14 has been replaced.

The right-side wall, of scribed roughcast, features an angle pilaster and cornice over the shop window. Above are replaced windows in original moulded architraves. A central attic window contains a renewed sash window, and to the right is a renewed tall narrow stair window.

The rear elevations, of 2 windows each and roughcast (rendered at number 18), have half dormers and tall narrow stair lights to the right side, except number 14 which has a stair window in the side wall. Some original sash windows are retained to the rear.