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House with attached warehouse fronting Thomas Street. Mid/late C17 and early C18. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings. Main range facing Coxwell Street has stone slate roof hipped to left; stone ridge stack and two external stone stacks to rear. Warehouse block to right of main range, gable facing, has stone slate roof with brick end stack and lean-to extension to left with stone slate roof with brick stack just above eaves. Small wing to left of main range, gable facing, has stone slate roof. Wing to left and warehouse block to right enclose small courtyard in front of main range which is set back from Coxwell Street. 3 storeys and attic; originally 5-window range now partially obscured by lean-to extension to warehouse block to right. Four windows to first floor; 3 in stone surrounds, probably late C17 with stone mullions and transoms cut out, with leaded lights; one to centre in early/mid C18 eared architrave with bracketed cill and timber casement, flanked by 2 possible blocked openings or bases for features now missing. Five ovolo-moulded stone mullion-and-transom windows with leaded lights to second floor, that to far right partly blocked. Four 9/9-pane early C18 sashes in moulded stone architraves to ground floor. Central door has 2 upper panels glazed and 4 lower panels in the form of a St Andrew's Cross in moulded stone doorcase with Doric pilasters supporting pediment. Plinth of cement render up to ground floor window cills; moulded string courses over ground and first floors, that to ground floor breaking forward above window architraves; moulded timber eaves cornice. Small wing to left is single storey with cellar; two 9/9-pane sashes in moulded stone architraves flank part-glazed door in moulded stone architrave. Wing to right has 2 6/6-pane sashes in plain reveals with stone cills on first floor and two similar windows on ground floor; small circular window to first floor left, open arcade supported on Doric columns to ground floor left. Right return facade is former warehouse front facing Thomas Street. 4-storey 6-window range, flanked by two 3-storey one-window ranges, all under continuous roof. Centre range has four windows with segmental arched heads with keystones, unmoulded stone cills and leaded lights to centre of first floor; rectangular openings to left and right, that to right blind. Second floor has 6 similar square openings; third floor has 6 blind openings, 4 to centre with round heads with keystones, square openings to left and right. Four 2-light timber casements in segmental arched openings with keystones to ground floor, that to far left broader former doorway. C20 plank door with overlight in similar opening to right. Pair of large boarded doors in segmental arched opening with rusticated stone surround to far right. Shallow plinth; band courses over ground, first and second floors. Flanking wings have Venetian windows in raised unmoulded stone surrounds with keystones to first floor (cf Coxwell Court (qv) and The Little Mead (qv)); both wings have 2 blind openings with raised unmoulded stone surrounds to second floor and 2 window openings under exposed timber lintels to ground floor. 3-storey 1-window extension to right wing has similar blind Venetian window with gargoyle head over on right return facade. Rear elevations of warehouse and house have six similar carvings said to come from Abbey... IOE

Formerly George & Dragon

Early C18 and earlier. Two storeys in red brick with pantile roof. Bold cyma recta eaves cornice in plaster, iron gutter. Sun insurance sign. Five windows, gauged brick heads and painted stone cills to near flush frame sash windows, now without glazing bars. Centre opening to passage has segmental headed door- way with 6-panel door. Rendered plinth. Remains of half-timbered interior: one wall of central open passage, leading to back premises is of interest. Dated 1671. Whitewashed brick wall divided into bays by Doric pilasters enclosing blind and other openings, with moulded and dentil triangular, segmental and broken segmental pediments. An example of the Artisan Mannerist style. The remains of the residence of the Warton family, LBO