Description

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SD5329 STANLEY TERRACE
941-1/6/271 (East side)
27/09/79 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)
(Formerly Listed as:
STANLEY TERRACE
(North side)
Nos.1-8 (Consecutive))

GV II

Includes: Nos.86 AND 87 FISHERGATE HILL.
(No.86 being the returned end of the terrace).
Terrace of 5 town houses, No.2 and Nos 86 and 87 Fishergate
Hill now hotels. c.1820, altered. Red brick in Flemish bond,
with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roof. Double-depth
plan, each house on Stanley Terrace single-fronted and Nos 86
and 87 Fishergate Hill double-fronted to that street; with
long back extensions. Three storeys over cellars, with
2+2+2+2+1 windows to Stanley Terrace; plain frieze, moulded
cornice and low blocking course carried round. Each house has
a round-headed doorway to the right, with a doorcase of
engaged Tuscan columns, entablature and cornice; one window at
ground floor and 2 on each floor above, those at ground and
1st floors tall and with raised sills and wedge lintels, and
those at 2nd floor square under the frieze, with raised sills,
and all these windows with altered glazing. Cellar windows
also with wedge lintels, and protected by gratings. Ridge
chimney stacks. No.86 Fishergate Hill, the right-hand return,
has a symmetrical 3-window facade in matching style. Continued
to the right of this is No.87 Fishergate Hill, an early
addition (now incorporated with No.86), also 3 storeys and 3
windows and in similar style but with a simple round-headed
doorway, and additions to the front of the ground floor and a
large iron fire-escape in the centre.

Listing NGR: SD5314129060

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26568967

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy