The Five Lamps

Terraced pair of two-bay two-storey rendered former houses, built c.1890, with recent shopfronts at ground floor level. Now disused. Double-pile pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles and rendered chimneystacks behind rendered parapet having cast-iron balustrade with foliate motif. No visible rainwater goods. Rendered walls throughout having stepped render cornice course to eaves terminating in console brackets and rendered quoins to front (south-east) elevation. Square-headed window openings to first floor having moulded rendered surrounds comprising engaged Doric pilasters and segmental-headed pediments. Sills not visible and/or incorporated into shopfronts, with replacement windows throughout. Square-headed door opening to south of front elevation behind recent rolling steel shutters.

Located at an important intersection in close proximity to the landmark Five Lamps, this pair of former houses presents an attractive front façade. They face a group of three buildings with the same parapet brattishing - cast-iron balustrade - on the opposite side of the street. The decorative stucco surrounds add to the quality of the façade. The façade composition and materials enhance this structure's significance within the streetscape and are testimony to the decorative skills of late nineteenth-century craftsmen.