Description

The following building shall be added to the list:

WHITEHAVEN TANGIER STREET
NX 9718 SW
6/184
No 35

II
Shop, built as a motor car salesroom and workshop. Circa 1905. Rendered
(probably sandstone, material not visible); diminishing slate roof with red
crested ridge tiles. 2 storeys. Plan: shop (with offices over) with vehicular
access and workshop to rear partly included in lower rear wing. Front, 4 window
range the right-hand window bay curved towards street corner. Intact shop front
with dentilled fascia, pedimented pilasters each with decorative plaster motif
(fruit suspended from a shell); plate glass windows each with 3 upper lights,
and deeply recessed half-glazed door. 1st floor windows under pediments on con-
sole brackets, horned sashes in reveals with glazing bars to upper sash only.
Plaster festoons between the pediments; right-hand sash curved to accommodate
corner. Moulded gutter box with egg and dart. Rear wing with one 3-light
window under cornice on console brackets. Interior: evidence of rear vehicular
access and workshop. A good early-C20 shop front in an important position on
the east approach to the town. An important survival of the early motor-car
trade, purpose built but using traditional motifs. In 1910 (Kelly's Directory)
it was occupied by H S Jacques, motor-car retailer, one of the few operating in
Cumberland at this date.

Listing NGR: NX9740818430

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540087

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014