house

Terraced three-bay two-storey house, c.1875, retaining original fenestration with timber shopfront to right ground floor. Now disused. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Roughcast chimney stacks. Rendered coping to gable to north. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast walls. Unpainted. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. 1/1 timber sash windows. Replacement glazed timber panelled door, c.1980. Timber shopfront to right ground floor now boarded-up. Road fronted. Concrete footpath to front.

This building, although now disused, has been well maintained and retains most of its original form and character. The front (north) elevation is composed of graceful Classically-derived proportions and is an attractive range in the terrace. The simple timber shopfront to right ground floor is an important early survival, where many others have been replaced with misguided modern interpretations of the traditional form – currently boarded-up and possibly under threat of replacement the existing front could possibly be incorporated into an alternative scheme. The shopfront confirms the social and historic significance of the house, attesting to the early commercialisation of Sallins. The building retains most of its original features and materials, including timber sash fenestration and a slate roof. The building is of importance due to its continuation of the established low-lying quality of the streetscape in the centre of the village of Sallins and, together with its neighbours in the terrace, is an attractive feature on the approach road into the town from the north.