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The Front Lounge — Parliament Street

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The Front Lounge — Parliament Street
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Attached six-bay five-storey former house and shop, built c.1860, having recent shopfront to front (east) elevation. Offices added to upper floors c. 1948. Now in use as public house and offices . Recent metal clad mansard roof behind recent red brick parapet having square-headed openings and cut granite coping with metal railings to front. Moulded terracotta cornice over red brick, laid in Flemish bond, to walls of upper floors, with red brick pilaster quoins, moulded red brick string course having brick corbels and ornate terracotta fascia below second floor windows. Arcade of pointed arch window openings to first floor with continuous brick hood moulding and terracotta detail to spandrels, terracotta panels to tympana, continuous masonry sill, and timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to second floor with flush cut sandstone sills and timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings to third floor having brick and lead sills, recent one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Recent painted timber shopfront with marble surround, having square-headed window and door openings with recent fittings. Situated on west side and centre of Parliament Street.

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