S. Hughes

Detached three-bay two-storey house, c.1880, retaining early aspect with timber shopfront to right ground floor. Now disused to right ground floor. Gable-ended roof with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Roughcast and rendered chimney stacks. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls. Ruled and lined. Painted. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Chamfered surrounds. 1/1 timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening. Timber pilaster doorcase with consoles and moulded entablature. Timber panelled door. Overlight. Square-headed openings to shopfront. Fixed-pane timber display window. Glazed timber panelled double doors with overlight. Timber shopfront with pilasters having timber fascia over continuing over two door openings. Road fronted. Concrete footpath to front.

This building, although partly disused, has been well maintained and retains most of its original form and character. The front (north) elevation is composed of graceful Classically-derived proportions and includes subtle decorative details, including chamfered surrounds to the window openings and a carved timber doorcase. The simple timber shopfront to right ground floor is an important early survival, where many others have been replaced with misguided modern interpretations of the traditional form. The shopfront confirms the social and historic significance of the house, representing the early commercialisation of Sallins. The building retains most of its original features and materials, including the doorcase and fittings, timber sash fenestration and a slate roof. The building is of importance due to its continuation of the established low-lying quality of the streetscape in the centre of the village of Sallins and, together with its neighbours in the terrace, is an attractive feature from the canal to north.