33-34, EAST GREEN

The property comprises two houses located on East Green in West Auckland. Traditionally known as Fish Hall, the building is said to have originated around 1690 and was later used as an asylum, eventually subdivided into three dwellings. It is constructed of irregular courses of squared stone with painted ashlar dressings. The roof is covered in Welsh slates with stone gable copings, and features renewed brick chimneys. Brick patching is visible on the right return gable, while the rear elevation displays rendered patches and heavy pointing.

The front elevation presents a two-storey, 2:3 window facade. The houses have renewed six-panel doors with plain overlights, set within painted stone architraves; No.33’s door is positioned between two windows, and No.34’s door sits below the first window. The architrave above No.34’s door incorporates a pulvinated frieze without a cornice. All windows have renewed architraves and projecting sills with pivoting lights designed to mimic the appearance of multi-pane sashes. A wider window to the right of No.33 is styled to resemble a 16-pane sash. The steeply pitched roof has moulded kneelers. A corniced brick chimney is visible at the right end, and another above the door of No.33. A truncated chimney sits at the left end.

The rear elevation features a catslide roof over an outshut of two low storeys, with a gabled stair wing rising from the centre. The interior reveals renewed doors and a stair. A spine beam on the ground floor may be a cased-in steel joist. The roof of No.33 incorporates collared trusses with a single level of purlins on the protruding collar; the ridge purlin is not visible.