worker's house

Terraced two-bay single-storey former worker's house with dormer attic, built c.1885. Pitched slate roof with crested black clay ridge, brick cruciform-plan chimneystack shared with neighbour, and cast-iron ogee-profile gutters fixed to exposed overhanging rafter ends with cast-iron downpipes. Gabled dormer window to front and catslide lucarne to rear. Squared rubble limestone walls, whitewashed to rear, with brick dressings to all openings. Square-headed two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows throughout, with ogee horns, and painted stone sills. Front dormer has pierced timber bargeboards with remains of timber finial and pendant, otherwise having similar details to house roof. Square-headed doorway with possibly original battened timber door with two-pane overlight. Catslide slate-roofed canopy over doorway, held on carved timber brackets which rest on stone corbels, otherwise with similar details to house roof. Cast-iron downpipe of neighbouring building pierces canopy roof.

This house is part of an aesthetically pleasing terrace of former workers' houses, built by the local landlord. It displays a host of good late nineteenth-century detailing, such as the decorative timbering to the dormer window and the entrance canopy. The visual contrast between the red brick, rubble limestone, red brick chimneystack and the carved timber, considerably enhances the streetscape.