163 Highgate
Between Jennings Yard 161 Highgate and Yard 165 Highgate on the east side of Highgate Google Maps Google Street View Wikidata
CURWEN 1900
"No 163The why and the wherefore of the different lines of frontages that we notice so repeatedly in Highgate, but more especially on the western side of the Butchers’ Rows, would form in itself a most interesting study. Surely it must lead us back to the early days when the roads were very different from what they now are. Days when there would be just the central horse track, bordered perhaps by grass or earthen side wastes. Each proprietor then would set up his thatched house without any thought for his neighbour or any line to dictate its bearing. Slight encroachments, bit by bit, but who was there to say him nay. A street view up Highgate must have been a great temptation, both for business and idle pleasure. The most audacious built out, as we know, right into the road as far as the track would allow them. But such houses have long since been swept away to accommodate vehicular traffic. The less bold, but wiser, pushed out just sufficient to gain their coveted side window, and I should think that these are they, or at least some of them, which so delightfully break the monotony of our street lines of to-day.
So here in this projecting shop we find not only the side window, but a doorway cunningly placed so as to afford the greatest temptation to the passer by to notice and step in at. And over it there used to be, supported on the cornice, a pestle and mortar, an emblem erected when Edward Greaves had the premises for a druggist’s shop. When he removed to Stricklandgate, James Pennington entered in and carried on a grocery business, until he removed up into Highgate; and then Wildman, the predecessor of James Gibson, the present owner, converted the place into a butcher’s shop."
Listed Building
Entry Name: 163 and 163A, HIGHGATE
Listing Date: 30 January 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1145713
English Heritage Legacy ID: 75388
Description
SD 5192 SE KENDAL HIGHGATE (East side)
11/47 Nos. 163 & 163A
G.V. II
Shop with flats above and behind; mid/late C18. Converted for use by butchers in mid C19. Rendered rubble with hammer-dressed plinths below shop windows; boxed gutter carried on dentils. Hipped, graduated slate roof with stone mid chimney. Rounded north corner (windows on north side are slightly rounded). 3 storeys, 3 bays. Shop front (early C19?) has vertically-split panelled door with rectangular fanlight; fixed window with glazing bars to left, wide sash display window to right. Ornate, corniced, wooden surround has panelled pilasters; egg and dart mouldings with wreaths to frieze. 2 sashes to each floor above, 16-pane to 1st floor and 12-pane to 2nd. That part of building of lower height adjoining to rear not of interest.
Listing NGR: SD5150892286
OCCUPIERS
Edward Greaves, (Druggist)
James Pennington, (Grocer)
Wildman, Butcher
James Gibson, Pork Butcher/Cow Keeper (1906 & 1914 Kellys Directory)
Stephen and Malcolm Sedgewick and Edmund, Butchers
Tony and Mark Wilson, Butchers (1970s - 1980s)
Edward Jones Investments (27/09/2002)
J Deng Fodds Oriental Supermarket (17 January 2013)
