Baliol Street Name Plate Numbers 56 And 58 And Attached Stone Baliol Street Name Plate And Yard Wall

A pair of houses with a rear yard wall, dating from around 1840. The houses are constructed from rubble stone with an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings; they have graduated purple slate roofs with stone gable copings, ridge details, and chimneys. The yard wall is also of rubble construction with a stone coping. The architectural style is Tudor.

The houses are two storeys high, with a symmetrical two-window front. Stone steps lead to doorways in the outer bays, featuring pointed heads to boarded panels, elaborate hinges, and overlights set in chamfered stone surrounds. The overlight of number 56 has lattice glazing bars. Full-height square bay windows are located in the inner bays, featuring stone mullions creating two lights to the front, plain sashes, and steep gabled roofs. All windows are deeply recessed and chamfered. The roof has steeply pitched sections with gable copings rising to square end chimneys with cornices; a transverse central chimney is also corniced.

The right return side has a late 18th-century ashlar street name plate with a high-quality inscription reading 'BALIOL STREET' in Roman capitals. A long stair window is positioned to the left of centre; paired lights on each floor are set towards the rear, with lattice glazing bars. The interior was not inspected during the listing process.

The yard wall, approximately 2 metres high, is constructed of rubble with a dressed stone coping and connects to the slope of the house. It includes a boarded door, set under a thin wood lintel.