Site Record

Number 19 Agincourt Square is an early ninettenth century three-storey, mid-terrace property with an early twentieth century shopfront. This building probably began as a house and adapted to commercial use in the nineteenth century. It is painted stucco with raised quoin pilasters and window architraves and a Welsh slate roof. The windows have moulded architraves and six over six pane sashes.

There is some evidence that the building is an even earlier timber-framed structure including original main roof timbers and some framing beams in the gable walls.

Source:- Cadw Listed Buildings & Heritage and Design Statement, for LBC appliaction. NJR 05/11/2010

Additional:

A three-storey late-Georgian house and commercial premises opposite the Shirehall. The ground floor and most of first floor have been gutted as a retail unit, but 1st floor front, 2nd floor and attic are un-renovated. The basement has an earlier origin and retains evidence for access from street level. The central well stair is skillfully constructed and carefully detailed with a sinuous handrail that extended from ground floor to attic without change in detail. The stairs at ground-floor level have been removed but continue from first floor to attic. The stairs are brick and stone at basement level. The four-panel doors and the 12-pane hornless sash-windows are original; two windows at the rear are blocked. There are two little bedroom basket fireplaces in the second-floor chambers.

The shop retains elements of an earlier shop and dwelling. The building may have been timber-fronted originally but with stone side walls. Centrally placed wall-posts rising from the cill at basement level supported wall beams and cealing beams. The range apears to have had an L-plan but the range fronting the street has been truncated. Two trusses survive - a truss with bent-footed principals (without a collar) in the rear range and a collar beam truss in the front range now embedded in the end wall with a lost bay beyond.

RCAHMW photo record by Iiain Wright. Plans as existing (2010) by Hernon Associates.

R.F. Suggett/RCAHMW/November 2010