House and shop

Cadw's description

Location

Fronting the street in the block of buildings between Margaret Street and the parish church.

History

Interior detail shows Nos 13-15 Church Street to be of C18 origin, and possibly that No 15 was built with its gable end facing the street, but was remodelled in the C19. No 13 is shown on the 1829 town plan as the King's Arms public house. The present frontage is later and was probably altered when the premises became shops. No 13 was a butcher's shop by 1899 and continued to be so in 1917.

Exterior

Belongs to a group of 13-15 Church Street.

An asymmetrical pair of 2½-storey shops with houses in late Georgian style, of pebble-dashed front painted light brown, with white smooth-rendered surrounds, slate roof and end roughcast stacks. In the 4-window front No 13 is to the L. It has an advanced bay on the L side with rusticated pilasters and beneath a hipped roof. A shop front has faceted pilasters and a thin fascia and cornice over a plate-glass window with narrow hopper window above it, and a half-glazed door to its L under an overlight boarded over. The upper storey has a hornless 16-pane sash window. The entrance to the house is set back on the R, a fielded-panel door under a radial-glazed overlight.

No 15 has a single entrance to shop and house on the L side, comprising double panelled doors, of which the lower panels are fielded, and overlight. To the R is a 3-light shop window with narrow light above a transom, panelled pilasters, fascia with end panels and moulded cornice. In the upper storey is a 12-pane hornless sash window over the entrance, to the R of which are 2 replacement small-pane top-hung casement windows. The attic has 3 gabled dormers with small-2-light windows, the L-hand within the advanced bay to the L.

No 15 has a 2½-storey rear wing, to which a lower 2-storey wing has been added, which has modern windows in its gable end. Both wings are rendered. No 13 also has a whitened render 2½-storey rear wing with end roughcast stacks and replacement windows. Offset to its R side is a further, later 2-storey wing, which retains a 4-pane sash window in the upper storey but otherwise has modern detail.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reason for designation

Listed for its special architectural interest as a C19 shop and house, with earlier origin, retaining definite C19 character and detail, and for its contribution to the historical integrity of Church Street.