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MANSFIELD SK5361 LEEMING STREET
924-1/5/51 (East side)
Nos.34-42 (Even)
Brunt's Buildings GV II Includes: Nos.4 AND 6 TOOTHILL LANE.
Office building with shops below. Dated 1915, with late C20
alterations. Brick with ashlar and concrete dressings with
slate roofs, coped gables and single gable and 3 ridge stacks
with stone bands and coping.
Quoins, first-floor lintel band, modillion eaves. 3 storeys
and 2 storeys; 9 x 10 windows. On corner site with angled
corner feature. Windows are mainly 15-pane glazing bar sashes
to the first floor, and 12-pane sashes above. Some have
single-pane lower sashes. First-floor windows have keystones.
Corner feature has banded pilasters with cornice breaks.
Composite sash with moulded surround and cornice, and above, a
round-headed niche containing a life-size sculpture of man in
late C17 costume. Above again, square clock turret with corner
volutes and clock face set in panel, topped with modillion
cornice, square lead dome and weather vane.
Leeming Street front has 2 projecting bays each with 2 sashes
on each floor, topped with dentillated pediments, each with a
half-round tablet inscribed "Brunt's Buildings". In centre of
each bay, cartouche set in leaves, the left with arms of the
Dand family, the right with inscription. Between projecting
bays, 2 windows on each floor, and beyond, on either side, a
set-back bay, the left with single window on each floor, the
right with 2.
Toothill Lane front has 3-storey block to right, 4 windows,
with projecting central bay under pediment containing a
half-round datestone. 2 windows on each floor. On either side,
single windows on each floor.
To left, a 2-storey range, 6 windows, with a slightly
projecting central bay, 2 windows, under a plain pediment.
Ground floor has continuous run of shop fronts and shop
windows along both fronts, linked by rounded corner. Original
wooden pilasters with curved double brackets and moulded
square hoods, and continuous dentillated cornice. 3 right-hand
bays to Leeming Street have cornice removed. Toothill Lane
front has plain cart entrance in second bay.
Erected by trustees of Brunt's charity on site of the house of
one Rowland Dand (inscription on Leeming Street front).
Listing NGR: SK5395361217
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