139 to 159 Grainger Street

Shops and houses, now shops. Circa 1836, probably by John Wardle, for Richard
Grainger. Sandstone ashlar; Welsh slate roof. 4 storeys; 19 bays and one-bay
curved corner to former High Friar Street:, now Eldon Shopping Centre. Ground
floor altered. First floor tripartite windows in end pavilions have Tuscan
pilasters and entablature with pedimented projecting centre; tripartite windows
on each floor above, with architraves and bracketed sills on second floor and
plain reveals on third. Central pavilion has architraves to first-and second-
floor windows, and cornices, the central pedimented, on first floor; bracketed
sills on second floor, plain reveals on third. All windows sashes, some with
glazing bars. Plainer intermediate sections have pilasters and entablature to
first-floor windows, second-floor sill string and entablature with prominent
cornice. Top cornice and blocking course. LISTED GRADE 2