Two photographs of the same building (74-76 on Church Road, Stockton) showing a little bit of reconstruction over the years, the second photograph looks like it has been put back to the original Georgian style.
The first photograph is dated c1989 and the second is January 2013.
Picture Stockton Archive 
I worked in this building for Charles Tennet, not Tennant
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Was the first picture the former offices of Tennants the Builders?
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Not Chas Tennant; Chas Tennet who live at Osmotherly
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It’s a crying shame that the same could not be done for the High Street, but credit were credit is due in reference to the illustrated buildings on Church Road.
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The upper photograph shows the facade as altered when the premises were occupied by the offices of Charles Tennant (Building Contractors) Ltd during the mid 1960s-1970s. The huge ‘bowed window’ being reminiscent of the bowed-windows fitted to pseudo-georgian ‘new-build’ homes during the same period. This was the section of Church Row (Road) formerly known as ‘Paradise Row’, on account of the large terraced townhouse properties built by the wealthy merchant-class of the late 18th-early 19th century. I believe the restoration work in the lower photograph was carried out by Stockton Borough Council. However, whilst the new ‘twin’ entrances and porticos must have some genuine or original historical reference, they still look ‘odd’ and/or against the usual symmetry of georgian architecture, particularly when related to the general pattern (or fenestration) of the windows within the facade. It would be interesting to see a pre WWII photograph featuring this same building.
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We have a photograph of the same building c1949 with what looks like a basement level as you can just make out windows below the street level… https://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2003/06/13/church-road-stockton-c1949/
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I’m grateful to the Picture Stockton team for the direction to the photograph taken circa 1949. It certainly is difficult to work out which windows of the upper storeys, relate to which entrance. Either way, there appears to be some overflight from one house to the other across the 5no. openings. I’m wondering if this was originally built as a single property and then ‘divided’ not long afterward? Whilst the basement windows and ‘areas’ have been infilled to pavement level, the actual basement areas are probably still accessible. Some of these properties had a broad expansive facade to the street, but were not in fact of any great depth from front to back. The larger adjacent ‘Gloucester House’ property, used as offices by Stockton Borough Council, still retains some of its original interior detailing and staircases.
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In the 1970 period this was a ‘double glazing showroom’, which was always empty and unattended, it certainly looks a lot smarter having been restored than it did then. I think there was a small cafe next door, then a cigarettes and tobacconists on the corner. You could park outside, and not worry about the Yellow Lines, as there was none.
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