JORDANS
JORDANS, at No 4 Priory Place, is one of ten houses on this terrace, all designed by William Hurst, who was responsible for a number of other buildings in Doncaster.
Originally built as townhouses, they are all now shops and offices. These houses were built in the 1830s, with later alterations.
All these houses have three storeys. They are rendered with Stucco, a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid.
All of the houses, feature, painted stone dressings and slate roofs, except for Number 7 and 8 which have concrete tiles.
Jordans has the only building with a surviving original ground floor, with a subtle bow window and double doors flanked by pilasters and surmounted by an arch with voussoirs (the individual blocks of stone) clearly visible.
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Continue to walk back along Priory Place to the High Street.
In the 1950s, British Telecom knocked down a number of houses, one was the original post office, to build a telephone exchange.
As we approach High Street, there are two listed buildings, the first one is the Post Office built in 1885, and on the corner with the High Street, the now, TSB bank, built-in 1923.
Opposite the Mansion House, is the Nat West Bank, originally the Westminster Bank. The building work took four years to complete and the new bank was opened on 30 April 1928.
In 1968, the National Provincial and the Westminster bank merged to form the National Westminster Bank.
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