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The Office Centre — Abbey Street Middle

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The Office Centre — Abbey Street Middle
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Terraced two-bay four-storey commercial building, reconstructed c.1920, with traditional-style shopfront inserted to ground floor. Built as one of pair. Flat roof with shared rendered chimneystacks, hidden behind raised parapet wall with moulded faience coping. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond to upper levels, having dentillated faience trim to deep moulded granite cornice. Square-headed window openings to second and third floors with moulded faience surrounds, sills and steel casement windows. Second floor windows have lugged and kneed faience surrounds with keystones and hood cornice. To first floor is tripartite pedimented faience window surround with channel rusticated faience mullions, moulded faience sill and steel casement windows with historic glass. Shopfront comprises off-centre replacement aluminium-framed shop display window and doors and square-headed entrance to east with replacement glazed door and square overlight. Shopfront and door opening flanked by rendered Doric pilasters to plain fascia framed by fluted console brackets with arched pediments.

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