3 Priory Street

Nos. 1-6 (consec) Priory Street Stucco fronted and painted with Welsh slate roofs behind parapets and these are not visible from street level. Convex terrace of three storey. double depth houses, some of which had shops on the ground floor from the first. Nineteen windows in all, arranged 5 : 3 : 3 : 3 : 5 on the first floor. The ground floor has four shopfronts, Nos. 1-4 consec; the arched entrance to White Swan Court, and tripartite 6 over 6 pane sashes, Nos. 5 & 6. The shopfronts have fluted strip pilaster framing and there are plain Doric pilasters framing No. 3 and the entry to White Swan Court, while Nos. 5 & 6 have single pilasters at either end and three paired pilasters framing the tripartite windows. The entry to White Swan Court has a fine pair of original double panelled doors. Six panel doors with arched heads with impost blocks and radiating fanlights. Continuous cornice to ground floor the top of which forms a cill band to the first floor windows. These are large 6 over 9 pane sashes with blind boxes to those of No. 4. No. 3 and the entry to White Swan Court have giant pilasters through first and second floors with Composite capitals. Cill band to second floor windows which are all 3 over 3 pane sashes. Cornice band and parapet band; No 4 has extra attic floor with pediment and Diocletian lunette window. The other houses each have one small flat topped dormer visible behind the parapet. Rear elevations of Nos. 1-3 not seen. White Swan Court abuts No. 4. The entry to White Swan Court is flat topped and is framed by plain pilasters. The first floor has a 4-light window 4 panes high in an arched recess, tripartite sash above this. Nos. 5 and 6 have various plain sashes as before.

Interior not seen at resurvey.