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Pair of semi-detached three-bay single-storey houses with half-dormer attics, c.1905. Individually renovated and refenestrated, c.1985, with entrance reoriented to house to right (south-east) with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch added to side elevation to south-east. Hipped gabled roofs (shared) with slate (hipped gabled section to centre of half-dormer attic). Red clay ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stacks. Exposed timber eaves. Timber bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Gabled to porch. Artificial slate. Roughcast walls. Painted. Red brick (painted) dressings including quoins to corners. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Red brick block-and-start surrounds. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1985, to right (south-east). Replacement aluminium casement windows, c.1985, to left (north-west). Replacement timber panelled doors, c.1985. Overlight. Set back from road in own grounds. Roughcast boundary walls to front with red brick (painted) piers having iron gates.

This pair of houses is of social and historic interest, representing an early housing development in the locality sponsored by the local authority - the houses form part of a larger group with a further pair to north-west (11805050/KD-11-05-50). Of picturesque appearance, the houses are distinguished by the juxtaposition of roughcast with red brick dressings, and the unusual profile to the roof. The houses retain some of their original features and materials, notably the covering to the shared roof, while the replacement fenestration does not detract significantly from the original integrity of the design. Set back slightly from the line of the road, the houses are an attractive feature on the streetscape of Church Road.