Happy 200th birthday to No.2 Percy Street, built in 1820 by the wonderfully-named Appleton Bennison who deserves a quick thread.
Currently available to let as offices ( as it has been for years) and once the home of a typewriter company, No. 2 is a lovely-looking late Georgian town house. Imagine the stories it holds.
According to contemporary trade directories, he lived at No 2 Baker St. He’s listed as a stonemason and architect. This was his front door.
Bennison built some of the first terraced housing in Sculcoates, sadly none remains.
He was also active in Beverley. Perhaps his finest surviving work is Sessions House in New Walk, originally an assizes court now a beauty spa and restaurant.
His Sessions House development also included what is now Beverley’s police station. Seems he favoured yellow brick.
His other surviving work in Beverley is the Registrar& #39;s House, tucked away in the complex of buildings which make up County Hall.
Bennison& #39;s stonework also included bridges, including re-building a medieval bridge at Yarm which still exists and this stone bridge at Tickton, sadly no longer with us.