Description

COLMORE ROW
1.
5104
City Centre B3
Nos 79 to 83 (odd)
SP 0687 SE 29/10 21.1.70
II GV
2.
Late C19. Stone. Three storeys; 5 bays, the inner 3 slightly advanced. Ground
floor with an arched side entrance up steps and beneath a segmental hood born on
headless birds as brackets, a large arched window on a vermiculated surround. The
principal entrance up steps, arched and within a porch with coupled Corinthian
columns and balcony and then another large window and side entrance. First floor
with, centrally, 3 windows with balconies and flanking unfluted Corinthian columns
carrying heavily ornate segmental pediments with urns and outer windows in moulded
surrounds and with detached segmental pediment. Second floor with an arcade of 7
small arched windows with much sculpture in the spandrels and aprons and, left,
Lorenzo Ghiberti and, right, Benvenuto Cellini. Above, in the centre, a richly
decorated and bracketted cornice with attic balustrade.

Listing NGR: SP0685387037

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26339257

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  For the Record
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)