Melrose

Terraced two-bay two-storey red brick house, built c. 1890, with a red brick three-sided canted bay window having hipped slate roof. Further distinguished by a round-arch porch door opening. Two-bay two-storey return prolonged by lean-to outbuilding. Pitched artificial slate roof with terracotta comb ridge tiles. Red brick chimneystacks with stringcourses and dog-tooth enriched cornices rise from party walls. Roof lights to rear span. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls, laid in English garden wall bond with cement re-pointing. Segmental-arched window openings with red brick arches, abutting eaves at first floor level, with limestone sills. Original one-over-one timber sash windows with ogee horns throughout. Round-arch door opening with red brick pilasters having cast stucco capitals joined by enriched cast archivolt with foliate keystone. Original tiled porch floor. Doorframe comprising frosted glass sidelights over plain bases with tripartite overlight having margin-paned centre light. Flat-panelled timber door. Concrete steps to porch door. Elevated front site enclosed from road by rendered plinth wall supporting foliate cast-iron panelling. Front site boundary terminating at either side by pier which is faced in red brick with stop-chamfered corners and concrete coping and to other side by rendered over pier. Cast-iron gate piers support cast-iron gate. Concrete path to front door with steps accommodating rise in levels. Site enclosed from neighbour by rendered wall. Rendered boundary wall encloses rear site, c. 2000.

This house forms one of four houses of similar design, built to uniform principles, which relies on the repetition of the three-sided bay window, doorcase and front site boundary wall treatment. The intactness of this house adds to its significance and to its contribution to the unity of the terrace is enhanced.