39 AND 40, OLD ELVET

Nos. 39 and 40 on Old Elvet are two houses built in the mid-18th century. They are constructed from mottled pinkish brick in English garden wall bond and feature a Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Each house has three storeys and an attic, with two bays.

To the left of each house, there is a replaced six-panel door set in an architrave, topped with a bracketed cornice hood. No. 39 includes a low, inserted overlight above its door. The windows are irregularly arranged, featuring sash windows with glazing bars, some of which are tripartite, all set under soldier-course arches. Notably, No. 39 has an early 19th-century first-floor oriel window on the right, while the ground-floor window of No. 40 is an early 20th-century square bay.

The buildings also display four- and three-brick floor bands and have a stepped and dentilled eaves cornice. The high-pitched swept roof includes three inserted flat-headed dormers and two stacks located behind the ridge, with the right stack having been rebuilt.