Description

CANNON STREET
1.
5104
City Centre B2
No 43
(Newton Chambers)
and Nos 44 and 45
SP 0686 NE 33/11 21.1.70
II GV
2.
Includes Nos 41, 42, 42A New Street. Circa 1899 by Essex, Goodman and Nicol.
Pink terracotta; slate roof. Four storeys plus attic; 5 bays, the fifth
containing the entrance and wider than the others plus the corner with its
little cupola. Ground floor with modern shop fronts and the entrance with
fanlight with 4 glazed lights. First floor with 4 tripartite windows beneath
broad segmental arches. These and the arch over the entrance with pretty,
detached scrolly members and ball flower ornament and a decorated stringcourse
above. Second and third floors each with 4 tripartite windows with ause-de-panier
arches to the lights and pretty, detached scrolly members. They are linked
vertically by baluster-like shafts left and right. In the fifth bay second
and third floors each have a 4-light transomed window with ause-de-panier
arches to the lights. They are treated together as a very shallow bay window
surmounted by a round window. Moulded eaves cornice. Attic with 4 canted
bay windows, terracotta faced but timber sided. The long return to New Street
(where are the entrances to Nos 41, 42 and 42A New Street) treated similarly,
but the centre gabled and with the second and third floors with canted bay
windows and 2-light rather then tripartite windows. Once housed the Kardomah
Cafe, some of whose interior is said to remain behind the present fittings.

Listing NGR: SP0698086830

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26627172

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)