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shop/retail outlet — Dame Street

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Attached single-bay four-storey building, erected c. 1880, converted to cinema 1913, now disused. Long narrow plan, dropping in height to rear elevation on Dame Lane. Flat roof behind moulded parapet. Painted channelled smooth rendered walling to front elevation, having roundels with swags flanking second floor window and containing lettering 'ICC', and with moulded strings between second and third floors. Painted full-width window opening to first floor, with slightly projecting central four-light oriel flanked by concave glazed lights returning to single recessed lights, plain frieze over containing central oval blind oculus with grille, surmounted by upward-thrusting curved moulded cornice and flanked by shallow consoles. Square-headed window openings to top two floors, with timber windows, that to second floor having moulded sill and architrave, plain frieze and vestigial segmental pediment, and central round-headed light flanked by opening casements; top floor opening has plain sill, moulded lugged architraves and three-light casement with inward opening lights. Remnants of original shopfront survive, including slender console brackets and fascia cornice.

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