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Clement & Pekoe — South William Street

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Clement & Pekoe — South William Street
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Attached three-bay four-storey over concealed basement former townhouse, built c. 1770, with integrated carriage-arch. Built as one of a pair with No. 49. Now in use as restaurant. M-profile hipped slate roof with ridges running perpendicular to street and hidden behind rebuilt front parapet with granite coping and cast-iron hopper and downpipe breaking through to south end. Tall shouldered chimneystacks to both party walls, buff brick to north and rendered to south with lipped clay pots. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond with original lime wigging and rusticated masonry quoins to north end only (cement pointed to ground floor). Gauged brick flat-arched window openings with patent rendered reveals, granite sills and late nineteenth-century single-pane timber sash windows with ogee horns. Large display window opening inserted to ground floor with triple-arched display windows. Round-headed door opening with stone Gibbs surround. Replacement timber panelled door and stepped lintel cornice with semi-circular fanlight having historic decorative leaded fanlight framed by quoined architrave. Door opens onto replacement machine-cut limestone platform leading to three nosed steps leading to street. Gauged brick semi-circular carriage-arch opening with replacement double-leaf timber panelled doors opening onto tiled front area enclosed by replacement steel gates.

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