Sir – I do not consider the new development of 9 High Street to be an improvement on the previous building, which was the only 1960/70s building on the High Street and (if it had been well maintained) a good example of its style.
The new building is not an improvement. I know that the stone facade is connected to, and supported by, a steel frame but it offends my engineering sensibility to see the “stone lintels” over the windows apparently supported by the glass and not keyed into the stone surround; even a V edge, as on the lintels of adjacent buildings, would be preferable to the straight edge.
Also the smooth face of these lintels is already being streaked by rainwater running down from the joints of the stones above; in a few years this will be much more marked and disfiguring.
Douglas Goode, Skipton
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