Description

PAINSWICK ST MARY'S STREET
SO 8609/8709 (part)
(north west side)
8/284 The Shetland Shop
21.10.55
GV II

House and shop in row. C17. Squared and coursed dressed limestone, stone slate
roof. A fine double-fronted property with lofty coped full gables separated by
a short section of roof; to left, this built up to carry a C20 stack at eaves.
Two storeys and attic, 1+1 window; at first floor the windows are drawn towards
the centre, and do not lie under those in gables; ground floor, left, similarly
drawn across. At ground floor is a 4-pane sash lighting the adjoining property,
Birmingham House, in Victoria Street (q.v.), then a good 24-paned bowed C19 shop
front with fluted pilaster jambs each side of a central part-glazed door in
chamfered surround with flat wooden hood on wrought iron brackets, up one step.
At first floor are 3-light and to attics 2-light stone mullioned casements, all
with recessed hollow chamfer mould and in stopped hoods. Concrete block stacks
to right, and to eaves, left.

Listing NGR: SO8673509688

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26383263

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)