Hayes — Court Street

Terraced eight-bay two-storey red brick building, c.1900, possibly originally intended as three separate (two) two-bay two-storey (south) and (one) four-bay two-storey (north) office buildings incorporating fabric of earlier houses, pre-1840, on site with elliptical-headed carriageway to right ground floor. Part reroofed and renovated with shopfront inserted to left ground floor. Now in part commercial use to ground floor with remainder in use as offices. Pitched slate roof with sections of replacement artificial slate, clay ridge tiles, rendered buttressed chimney stack having chamfered capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on moulded red brick eaves having iron ties. Red brick Flemish bond wall to front (east) elevation on cut-granite plinth with moulded red brick cornice, and rendered wall to rear (west) elevation. Camber-headed window openings to ground floor with cut-granite sills supporting decorative iron sill guards, red brick voussoirs having cut-granite keystones, and fixed-pane (three-light) timber windows. Square-headed window openings to remainder with cut-granite sills, red brick voussoirs, and two-over-two timber sash windows having six-over-six timber sash windows to rear (west) elevation with some replacement uPVC casement windows throughout. Square-headed door openings with cut-granite steps, red brick voussoirs, and timber panelled doors or double doors having overlights. Elliptical-headed carriageway to right ground floor with cut-granite chamfered piers having stringcourses supporting cut-granite voussoirs incorporating keystone, tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having wicket gate, and overpanel. Timber shopfront to left ground floor with fluted pilasters having consoles, fixed-pane (two-light) timber window having casement overlights, glazed timber door having overlight, and fascia. Street fronted with concrete brick cobbled footpath to front.