W H SMITH

W H SMITH, 110, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1359556
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-2002
List Entry Name:: W H SMITH
Statutory Address:: W H SMITH, 110, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1359556
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-2002
List Entry Name:: W H SMITH
Statutory Address 1:: W H SMITH, 110, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: W H SMITH, 2A, PARCHMENT STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: W H SMITH, 110, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: W H SMITH, 2A, PARCHMENT STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: Winchester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 48132 29503

Details

869/0/10054 PARCHMENT STREET 26-FEB-02 2A W H Smith HIGH STREET 110 W H Smith

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Shop premises. 1927; by J.W. Williamson, of Blount and Williamson of Salisbury for W H Smith. Chilmark stone ashlar and coursed rock-faced rubble, close-studded timber-framing and tile-hanging in gable. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends and louvred ventilator on ridge. PLAN: Open plan ground floor shop, originally with library at rear. Separate entrance at side to first floor dance hall/tea room, supper room and crush room. First floor now part of shop. Shop premises extended into former 1867 Masonic Hall at rear [N], which was originally a Wesleyan chapel and which was partly rebuilt late C20. Arts and Crafts/Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 storey main range. Tile-hung south gable end to High Street with moulded bargeboards and lead drain-pipe with ornate hopper and cistern head on left. Wide 5-light oriel on brackets on first floor with small pane windows and shop front on ground floor with moulded lead fascia, on the rounded corner, corbelled above, the fascia has moulded lead coat of arms, bearers and ships; fascia continues on RH return facing Parchment Street with shields and five bowed shop windows with glazing bars, between ashlar piers. Close-studded timber-framing above to first floor with 5-light mullion-transom windows with leaded panes and casement stays; to right [N] twin gabled stone 3-storey range with flush frame windows with leaded pane metal casements and wide moulded 4-centred arch doorway on ground floor and lead down pipes with elaborate castellated hopper-heads. To right [N] 1867 gabled front of former Masonic Hall; flint with red brick and stone dressings, blocked pointed arch first floor windows and roundels above with carved stone Masonic symbols, and with late C20 shop on ground floor which continues on RH [N] return facing St George Street. INTERIOR: Ground floor open plan shop without exposed features. Stairs at side rise to 5-bay hall open to timber hammer-beam roof with curved braces to collars, above which there are king-posts with curved braces to the principals and ridgepiece, moulded wall-plates and exposed purlins and straight wind-braces; plastered ceiling panels; the end gables have painted moulded plasterwork depicting, at one end King Arthur and the Round Table, and at the other end King Alfred in the Shepherd's Hut; both murals have rope borders, scabbards and trailing vines. On the side walls between the trusses are murals depicting William Wykeham building Winchester College, Sir Walter Raleigh, reindeer, oak trees, archers, a knight and a roundel of Philip II and Mary I, St Bartholomew and St Cuthlan; under the ridge is an elaborate cast-iron ventilator grille with trailing vine decoration. Plaster vaulted first floor corridor has moulded plasterwork. The W.H. Smith bookshop combined with tea room/dance hall is an interesting example of this type of commercial building, well designed in the Arts and Crafts/ Domestic Revival style.

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Legacy System number:: 488496
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.