NHER 62453 (Building record) - 13 to 15 (odd) St George's Street

No 13 to 15 (odd), St George's Street.

These buildings are depicted on a photograph taken by George Plunkett in 1938 (S1). The buildings just visible to the right (Nos 3-7) were subsequently demolished.
P. Watkins (HES), 29 November 2017.

December 1973. Building Survey.
Examined by Royal Commission.
At this time these were four distinct buildings, Nos 9, 11, 13 and 13A. No 13A is the building numbered 15 on Plunkett's photograph.
The front range of No 9 was parallel to the street and consisted of two stories plus attics. It was three bays wide and had a front wall and south gable of red brick, a pantile roof and a timber-framed rear wall. There was also a now-demolished two-storey rear range that was four bays wide and was partly built of brick and partly timber framed. Its roof had three gables at right angles to the street and was also covered with pantiles. The earliest elements of this building are parts of the timber frame, which date to the 17th century.
No 11 was a narrow, one-room wide building of two stories plus attics. It was built of red brick and was roofed with pantiles. Two plain chamfered beams that survived on the first floor perhaps dated to the 17th century. A two-storey rear range set at right angles to the street had brick walls and a slate roof. This rear range has also probably now been demolished.
Nos 13 and 13A are described as a two-storey building with a modern, single-pitched roof. There was clear evidence that the upper portion of the building had been removed - something confirmed by Plunkett's photograph which shows a three-storey building and a pantile roof with three gables. The stacks had also been removed and both floors gutted. There were however two surviving original beams that could be dated to the late 17th century. No 13A had a yard entrance that had been enlarged in the late 19th century. Buildings to the rear of Nos 13 and 13A also dated to the 19th century.
It is clear that all of these buildings were in a poor condition at the time they were surveyed.
See report (S1) for further details.
P. Watkins (HES), 29 November 2017.

Nos 15 to 19 St George's Street have now been extensively renovated and, seemingly, substantially altered from their form as it was described in 1973. They have been completely rebuilt at the back and there is also evidence that at least part of the front walls have also been rebuilt. They have also been completely reroofed, which can be seen most clearly on the left hand building, which now again has a third storey and a three-gable roof. It is unclear at present exactly how much of the original fabric survives.
P. Watkins (HES), 29 November 2017.