Shagor Tandoori Takeaway

World Choice Travel and Shagor Tandoori Takeaway

This pair of late 19th-century commercial buildings comprises two adjoining premises on a corner site facing Crown Square and Vale Street. The left-hand section, now Shagor Tandoori Takeaway, is designed in Flemish Renaissance town-house style, while its neighbour, World Choice Travel, is in eclectic Gothic style. Both are constructed in red brick and terracotta with particularly fine detailing, and share a continuous slate roof that rounds at the corner with Vale Street. The Shagor section features decorative ridge tiles, while the World Choice Travel section has raised decorative ironwork. A central chimney with panelled and laced decoration and moulded cornice rises between them.

World Choice Travel is a three-storey, three-bay corner premises with a rounded central bay. The ground floor originally featured a Gothic arcuated stone shop front, but this was replaced between 1925 and 1933 during alterations by Hepworth's Tailoring with a plainer design. The current shop front consists of a central recessed entrance in the rounded corner with large two-part shop windows to the left and right returns, a glazed modern door, and a modern fascia superimposed over an earlier one. The original modillion cornice remains above.

The upper floors display paired windows recessed within three vertical, full-height bays terminating in twin Gothic arches. First floor windows have depressed ogee heads, while second floor windows have pointed arches, all with roll-moulded jambs and plain sashes. The first floor features decorative leaded upper lights, while the second floor has cusped Gothic upper lights. A continuous shaft with base, three shaft rings, and a Gothic capital rises through both storeys to divide each pair and form the central springing point of the upper arches, with shared moulded labels adorned with foliated stops. Between the floors are fine foliated terracotta relief panels, laced through to left and right with moulded string courses at top and bottom. The left-hand bay facing Crown Square has loading bays on each floor, both with complex depressed ogee heads. The smaller first floor loading bay is plain-glazed, while the larger second floor version retains its panelled door with paired Gothic lights to the top. A heavy modillion cornice with relief bosses crowns the roof line.

The Shagor Takeaway presents a three-and-a-half storey, three-bay gabled elevation. The ground floor has a modern part-glazed shop front but retains the original cast iron Gothic colonnettes dividing the central entrance bay from the broader flanking bays, with a plain fascia and chamfered stone plinth. The first and second floors feature cross-windows to the central bay and tall windows to the flanking bays, all with plain 20th-century glazing. The windows are segmentally arched, with the central examples bearing carved terracotta head keystones. Vertical brick pilasters with full-height rise divide the bays, terminating above a heavy cornice in geometric finials (the outer ones are missing). Below the cornice runs a continuous moulded stringcourse with horizontal recessed panels, with similar decorative treatment between floors using terracotta relief panels. The central bay rises into a Flemish gable with surmounting pediment and finial. A two-part segmentally-arched window with small-pane upper lights and a moulded label bearing a carved head keystone crowns the gable.

The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.