Piercliffe

HARTLEPOOL SOUTH CRESCENT NZ 5233 & 5333 (north-west side), Headland. 9/105 Nos. 1 to 6 (consecutive) 31.3.49

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Includes No. 16A Baptist Street (rear part of No. 1 South Crescent) and No. 32 (Piercliffe) St. Hilda's Chare. Terrace of 7 houses, early/mid C19. Stucco on brick, except for exposed brick frontage of No.1. Painted stone dressings and chamfered quoins at angles. Welsh slate roofs. Gently curved convex plan. 3 storeys. No.1 has pilaster-and-entablature doorcase to left, below late C19 sash window with painted sill and wedge lintel; 2-storey mid C20 segmental-plan bay window to right; and three 2nd floor windows with mid C20 casements, wedge lintels and sill bands. Nos.2 to 6 have wood pilaster-and-entablature doorcases to right. Nos. 2,3,4,6 and 32, have 2-storey canted bay windows flanked by pilasters. No. 5 has similar ground-floor bay window and 2 first-floor windows with cambered heads. Nos. 2 to 6 and 32 each have two 2nd floor windows with continuous sill bands. Nos. 2 to 5 have late C19 sashes; others have mid/late C20 altered glazing; all doors renewed mid/late C20. Nos. 3 to 6 and 32 have narrow blocking course at eaves; narrow blocking course and moulded eaves cornice to Nos. 1 and 2 and both end returns. Continuous roof, hipped at ends and concealed behind shallow parapet. 6 brick ridge stacks; gabled roof dormer to No. 3. Left return has 2 windows to ground and first floors, those to left being mid C20 casements in enlarged openings, sashes to right. 3 second-floor openings, that to centre having mid C20 casement, others blocked. Right-hand return (No. 32) of 3 bays with round-headed central doorway; mid C20 casement windows in original openings to centre and right-hand bay; blocked openings to left-hand bay. Later extensions to rear are not of interest.

HARTLEPOOL BAPTIST STREET NZ 5233 and 5333 (east-side) Headland

8/45 & 9/45 No 16A

GV II

Wrongly shown as No. 16 Baptist Street on 0.S. plan. See under Nos 1 to 6 (consecutive) South Crescent.

Listing NGR: NZ5292233538