11 Church Street

The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Three storey shop facing onto the Square on N side of Church Street.

Pitched natural slate roof with tall rendered chimney to each gable. Concrete skew to right and leaded one to left. Advanced eaves course carries modern plastic rainwater goods.

Front elevation is cement rendered and painted and two windows wide (to upper floors). Ground floor is filled by a modern shop front with large boxed fascia, all of no interest. Each upper floor has two wide uPVC casement windows with thin concrete cills. Those to second floor are diminished in height.

Right gable is abutted by a lower building (HB16/11/007). The exposed section is rendered and has “CHEMISTS” painted vertically on wall.

Left gable is abutted by a lower building; the exposed section is rendered and blank.

Rear elevation not inspected.

Historical information

A building is shown here on the 1834 Valuation town plan. Noted in the First Valuation book (1834) as measuring 26ft x 24ft x 19ft6in and function given as shop. The Second Valuation (183) gives it as a house and its dimensions as 8.5yds x 11yds x 3 storeys (with a 4yd x 12.5yd x 2 storey return). These suggest a substantial refurbishment or a complete rebuild during the intervening period. A rear return was added in 1875, and the house became a shop in 1907.

The HMBB first survey card states, “c1864. A three storey building, shopped on ground floor, with rendered walls and raised quoins on first and second floors. Roof is slated with square eaves cornice. Double hung windows. Panelled pilasters rise to architrave blocks supporting gablets flanking cornice over fascia. Two windows wide.”

The first survey slide of the building to the right (HB16/11/007) shows the right half of this building. The shop front has a recessed central doorway with panelled stucco stallriser and cill. Large fixed shop window to right (and probably to left). The extreme end of the shop front has a panelled stucco pilaster with chamfered base and pair of consoles supporting a gabled coping. The fascia is moulded and has an awning box fitted on top, obscuring the first floor cill level.

Primary sources:

1. Valuation town map, 1834 (PRONI, VAL/1D/3/2).
2. First Valuation book, 1835 (PRONI, VAL/1B/367, p.86).
3. Second Valuation book, 1863 (PRONI, VAL/2B/3/65B, p.25).
4. Valuation Revision books (PRONI, VAL/12B/22/23B, p.144; /23F, p.108).

Secondary sources
1. HMBB first survey card dated 12/12/1969.
2. HMBB first survey slide for HB16/11/007 (1969).

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

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Criteria for listing: historic interest

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Evaluation

This building retains no features of architectural or historic interest.