Description

Charles and Leslie Ower, circa 1885. High Victorian
gothic 3-house asymmetrical terrace. 2-storey and attic,
coursed squared rubble, ashlar dressings.
E elevation, from left: (No 2) gabled bay with ground
floor 4-light canted window, cast-iron brattishing.
3-light stilted Tudor-arched and hood-moulded window at
1st, 2-light segmental arched window over, within steep
bracketted barge-boarded gable, finial missing.
Doorway to right with lead roof in 4-stage tower, 1st
stage segmentally pedimented window, 2nd window moulded
arrises and steep pediment, 3rd mullioned and transomed
windows in hoodmoulds 3-light to E, 2 light to N. Square
corbelled tower with octagonal facetted spire, roof
partly fish-scale, wrought-iron finial.
3 recessed centre bays symmetrical. Central canted bay
at ground and 1st floors, corbelled cast-iron brattishing
at 1st (missing at 2nd). Doorways to Nos 4 and 6 to
each side with moulded arrises and lead porch roofs.
2 lights, with roll-moulded arrises, for bathroom/stair
above each. Chevron moulded cornice. 2 single-light
piended-roofed dormers. 1 2-light elaborately
bargeboarded gabled dormer. Finial missing.
Right section boldly projecting canted bay, 5-light
mullioned and transomed ground floor window 4 stilted
Tudor arched lights at 1st with corbelled cast-iron
brattished balconies, hoodmoulds. 2nd floor corbelled out
above eaves, stepped 3-light window under steep gable
with bargeboarding (part of King post missing), single
light windows to sides with half-piended roofs.
N AND S ELEVATIONS: each 3-bay, simple chamfered
windows, stack corbelled out at 1st, rising through
bargeboarded gable. Bracketted eaves to W with single
and 2-light piend-roofed dormers. Gable-end stacks at W.
3 single-storey rear service wings.
Steep slate roofs with fish-scale bands.
2-pane sash and case windows, except where transomed.
Interior flatted, portions of stair, plasterwork and
fireplaces survive.
Low garden walls with rectangular gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Compare 3-7 Rockfield Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17808863

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)