55 and 56, W Street England, UK

Listed Building Description

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1. WEST STREET 972 (South Side) No 55 & 56 SU 8504 NE 3/149 5.7.50. II GV 2. C18 with much lower roofline and frontage than No 54. 2 storeys and attic. Red tiled roof, with a higher roofline in the east; 3 modern dormers inserted in No 56. No 55 and 56 have a continuous frontage. Brick dentilled eaves cornice. Painted brick. No 55 has 3 windows including a bay built out with a Venetian window on the ground floor and 2 ordinary sash windows above. Further west on ground and 1st floors two sash windows in reveals in flat arches; glazing bars intact; brick voussoirs (now painted over). No 56 has 3 windows on 1st floor all inserted at a lower height than those in No 55; windows with flush boxes and with glazing bars intact in upper parts of windows. Pair of doorways in western part of No 55 with panelled pilasters, flat segmental arches, impost moulding and dentilled cornice with blocking course over. Doors in panelled reveals; doors with 6 flush panels with flat segmental fanlights with tracery over.

Nos 52 to 56 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SU8587604840