Whittingham's Stores

Whittingham's Stores is a building that was almost certainly purpose-built as a shop with accommodation in the mid-19th century by the Vaynor Estate, with an architect's drawing dated 1857. It may also represent the rebuilding of an earlier house on the site, suggested by the axial siting of the stack. The building features painted brick with a dentilled eaves band and a slate roof, along with an axial brick stack. It is two storeys tall and has a four-window range. The shop front is located to the right, featuring small paned windows that are splayed back on either side of a central entrance, all under a continuous moulded entablature or fascia. The entrance to the adjacent accommodation, which is now partly used as stores, is in the center of the left-hand section of the building. This entrance has a four-panelled door flanked by 12-pane sash windows on each floor, with a lower 6-pane sash window above the doorway and a 12-pane sash window above the shop. All the windows are in splayed cases, a characteristic of the Vaynor Estate's work from the mid-19th century.