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Exchequer Chambers — Exchequer Street

shop/retail outlet
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Exchequer Chambers — Exchequer Street
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Corner-sited nine-bay four-storey commercial building, dated 1901, with slightly advanced two-bay pedimented gabled ends to front (south) elevation with attic accommodation, three-bay elevation to east, and shopfronts to ground floor of front elevation. H-plan pitched slate roof, hidden behind brick parapet with limestone coping, and attic level of breakfronts flanked by ball finials and segmental pediments with scallop motif. Carved limestone cornice over red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond, with carved limestone quoins to breakfronts. Square-headed window openings, with limestone sills to first floor and continuous carved limestone sill courses to floors above and to attic storey, all with replacement timber casement windows. Centrally placed round-headed door opening to front elevation, with wrought-iron security gate and tiled threshold, red brick pilasters with bull-nosed brick to arrises, supporting limestone voussoirs with carved limestone fascia, framed by brick pilasters with bull-nosed brick arrises, and carved limestone capitals supporting open-bed moulded limestone pediment. Shopfronts comprise square-headed display windows with deep timber fascias and cornices, framed by brick pilasters with carved limestone bases and capitals, that to west end with scrolled brackets with swan's-neck pediment.

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