| Summary: | Addition of New Record.Stanhope chambers, nos 12, 13, 14, the square. Shops with accommodation above. Circa 1900. Italianate style. Red brick, ashlar dressings, quoins, moulded brick entablature and modillion cornice, slate roof, decorative ridge tiles. Rectangular block of 3 single-fronted shops, entrances on right sides, separate staircases to upper floors.3 storeys, 2:4 bays; upper storeys paired semicircular-headed window openings with keystones divided by colonnette with floral capital, outer capitals continued as decorative frieze linking the paired windows, quoins to window openings, sashes without glazing bars, plain moulded string course between first and second floors, decorative cast iron balcony to first floor, rusticated pillars with decorative capitals, now painted, adjoining doorways right with brackets above. Late c20 fascia obscuring modillion cornice. Two original shop fronts right with moulded plinths, panelled soffits, glazed doors, the lefthand shop front (no 12) rebuilt late c20. Although the facade appears symmetrical the end 2 bays right are set closer together. The detailing is very similar to that of no 1 north road, and to other buildings in holsworthy road that have been altered (photograph in nmr) (doe). |
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