The Bargain Store — Main Street

The saved account records: Corner-sited attached four-bay two-storey house with attic storey, built c. 1810, having shopfront at ground floor level added c. 1950.

The saved account records: Pitched natural slate roof having castle-iron rainwater goods, projecting eaves course, and having tooled ashlar limestone chimneystacks to the east gable end and offset to the west side of centre.

The saved account records: Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls.

The saved account records: Square-headed window openings at first floor level having six-over-six pane hornless timber sash windows and stone sills.

The Bargain Store — Main Street matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Although now out of use, this building, of early nineteenth-century appearance, retains much of its early character and form. Its visual expression and architectural integrity is enhanced by the retention of much of its early fabric including timber sliding sash windows at first floor level and to east side elevation, and a natural slate roof. The good quality cut stone chimneystacks add interest at roofscape level. The location of the chimneystacks suggests that this building may have been extended by a bay to the west at some stage, while the fenestration pattern to the main elevation suggests that this… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.