Clifton — Castle Avenue

Semi-detached pair of double-pile two-bay two-storey houses over basements, built c. 1905, having single-storey canted-bay windows over basements to inner bays of front (west) elevation, and lower two-storey over basement returns to rear. Now partly in use as apartments. Pitched natural slate roof to front pile, with hipped natural slate roofs to rear pile and to returns, red brick chimneystacks with cornices and clay pots, clay ridge tiles, moulded brick eaves courses and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, with moulded red brick stringcourse forming cornices to parapets of bay windows, and with moulded render plinth course over lined-and-ruled rendered walls to basement. Square-headed window openings, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash and some replacement windows, having cut granite sills, and continuous sills to bay windows. Deeply recessed porches openings with round outer heads, moulded red brick surrounds with terracotta keystones, square-headed inner door openings with timber panelled doors, plain overlights and leaded sidelights, terrazzo floors, decorative tiles to side walls, and plaster cornices to ceilings. Granite thresholds and flights of granite steps with wrought-iron railings on rendered retaining walls. Set in own grounds with gardens and carparking to front and rear, and rubble stone boundary walls. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate and vehicular gates to house to No. 48, vehicular gateway lacking gate to No. 50, all gateways having square-plan red brick piers with pointed capstones.