NHER 54785 (Building record) - Former Gas Showroom, 39-40 King Street

June 2010. Listed Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"A purpose-built gas showroom of 1912, with adjoining rear workshops of 1904. Designer unknown. The showroom and workshop are constructed of red brick laid in Flemish bond with stone dressings and slate-covered gable roofs…"
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current, full listing details.
A. Cattermole (NLA), 17 August 2010. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 March 2022.

Architectural Investigation.
The main building is three storeys high and five bays wide on the upper storeys with two segmental arches forming the show windows and entrance on the ground floor. The right hand side of the building is formed of three bays and projects slightly further towards King Street than the left hand side which is formed on two bays. The gable over the right hand bay facing the street is highly decorated with red brickwork in a chequer-board design with stone banding running horizontally and a stone edging supported on dentils terminating in single roundels. This gable is topped with a 1912 date stone surmounted by a pediment with a second 2008 date plaque added to the centre of the gable face itself. A parapet runs along the top of the building below which is a stone cornice of the Roman order supported n heavy dentils. Running the height of the building, between the two bays, is a recessed cast-iron drainpipe which is hidden at the top by the cornicing.
Internally the doorway to the front of the property gives access to a wooden porch with bevelled edge cut glass part-glazed double door with brass handles. The main ground-floor room is a single open space with parquet flooring. The spandrels of the display window contain a roundel feature in wood.
See (S2).
S. Howard (HES), 9 March 2011.