granary — Grand Canal Place

Detached nine-bay three-storey former hop store with dormer attic, built c.1850, having curved front (north) and rear elevations and single-storey extension to west, also built on curved plan. Remodelled as experimental malt house 1901. Later in use as furniture shop, now disused. Pitched slate roof having flat-roofed dormer windows. Hipped roof to east bay, vents to ridge. Access deck at eaves level supported by cast-iron brackets and railings. Pitched asphalt roof to extension. Snecked cut limestone walls having rusticated granite quoins. Roughcast rendered walls to extension. Square-headed window openings having cut limestone lintels and granite sills. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed openings to first floor level having block-and-start brown brick surrounds and granite sills, openings now infilled. Round opening to west gable first floor having brown brick voussoirs, now infilled with brown brick. Segmental-arch opening to ground floor having cut granite block-and-start surround, granite keystone, brown brick voussoirs, timber battened doors, granite sill over cut limestone riser, wrought-iron steps set over recessed arch to riser, wrought-iron handrail to arch reveal. Square-headed door opening having brown brick and limestone surround, recent metal shutter.