| Description | Row of 10 shops with offices over, dated 1890. Designed by J Judson and Moore for Alderman R L Hattersley. Built of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and a hipped slate roof with 7 stacks. Pilaster strips and bracketed eaves. 10 original shop fronts with tall wooden pilasters brackets and fascia boards. Central carriage entry with bracketed lintel, with to the left a shop front, then a doorway to offices with elaborate double panel doors with tripartite overlight and brackets supporting a broken swan neck pediment with carved festoon, and beyond 4 more shop fronts. To the right another 4 shop fronts and a corner shop front. Above central 3 light bow window with moulded ashlar surround with pulvinated frieze and flat hood, to the left 5 windows with similar surrounds, the central one with pilasters and segmental pediment inscribed 'HATTERSLEY CRESCENT'. Beyond, is a canted bay window with similar surround, the central window topped by a pediment. Then 3 windows and a corner bay window all with similar surrounds. To the right 4 windows, then a canted bay window topped by a pediment inscribed '1890' with beyond 2 windows and a corner bay window all with similar surrounds. Upper floor has similar fenestration pattern with small windows in plain ashlar surrounds. Plain sashes throughout.
(Text edited from English Heritage’s LBO description) |