Description

1.
1578 WEST STREET
(South East Side)

No 13
TQ 9220 1/105 12.10.51.

II GV

2.
Early C19 house and shop at the corner of West Street and Mermaid Street.
3 storeys. 2 windows facing east. Ground floor painted brick, stuccoed
above. Eaves cornice. Ripped tiled roof made in 2 sections. The doorway
of the shop is in the rounded corner of the building. It has a fluted
frame with a flat hood curved to follow the curve of the corner, curved
double doors (of which the top halves have been glazed) and a curved rectangular
fanlight above. On each side of the door is a small curved shop window
in a fluted frame with a cornice over The glazing bars are missing in
these shop windows but they are intact in the windows of the house. There
are no other windows besides the shop window in the front facing south.
On the east front is a matching doorway to the house in a fluted frame
with a rectangular fanlight, flat hood over and 6-panel door.

Nos 1 & 2, Norman House, The Tower House, Lamb House, Nos 13 to 17 (consec)
and No 1 Mermaid Street form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ9202820303

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553293

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey