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Summary

Description

Osmund Cooke, 1890-92. Gothic residential building, of 3

storeys and attic; rectangular plan. Squared and

coursed bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings, base

and cill courses, cornice and parapet; chamfered

reveals, ashlar mullions and transoms.

S ELEVATION: 6 asymmetrical bays. Pointed-arch column-

flanked doorway at centre with hoodmould and carved

keystone corbel supporting pedestal for intended statue;

fanlight bearing gilded St Mungo's Retreat. Bipartites

throughout mainly paired, mullioned and transomed ground

and 2nd floors. Hoodmoulded pointed arch also 1st floor

with oculus in each apex. Full-height canted bay to

outer right, of 4 bipartite each floor lights and with

decoratively finialled polygonal piend roof. Parapet

indented with square panels forming frieze, each inset

with variously carved ornate terracotta tiles. Gabled

dormer at centre, with pointed arch bipartite window,

marked by granite columns and small cartouche in apex

above; gabled skewputts and foliate finial.

E ELEVATION: harled; formerly adjoining building to E

now demolished. Cross finial to rear gable.

Plate-glass sash and case windows with diamond lead-

paning above transoms. Grey slate roofs, off-set apex

stacks with neck bands detailed as parapet and with

pie-edge coping. Decorative terracotta ridge tiles.

Original decorative gutter fittings retained.

RETAINING WALL, PIERS, GATE AND RAILINGS: ashlar coped

retaining walls; ashlar gatepiers with gablet coping;

decorative cast-iron railings and gates.

Statement of Special Interest

Adjoined at W by St Mungo's Roman Catholic church. Style

derived from High Victorian Gothic.

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