Description

UNION STREET
1.
1577
(East Side)
Nos 1 & 1A
SZ 5992 2/343

II

2.
Circa 1830/40. Corner site with the Esplanade. Three storeys, different
levels due to sloping site, painted brick and stuccoed ground floor. Gable
end and hipped slate roof curved round corner, shallow eaves cornice. On
Union Street first floor flat fronted bow window of three lights, sash,
glazing bars, Tuscan pilasters, apron, frieze and cornice breaking forward
slightly to centre. Other windows recessed, one blocked and one fixed
with moulded frame, otherwise sash, glazing bars intact, block sills, flat
brick arches. No 1A shop front retains part of mid C19 frame with
pilasters and moulded cornice, small plate glass window. Corner section
of three windows, recessed sashes with some glazing bars, as on Union
Street, centre one second floor blind, no glazing bars first floor and
centre one full length two light transomed casement. Ground floor frame
of mid C19 shop front with pilasters frieze and moulded cornice. Two fixed
windows glazing bars survive in upper part with rounded corners to panes.
Central door glazed, moulded lintel, square fanlight over. Stepped surround.

Nos 1 and 1A form a group with No 1 Esplanade.

Also Nos 1 to 13 (consec) and No 15 form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ5931092893

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26563686

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)