Piercliffe

This is a terrace of seven houses, dating from the early to mid-19th century, located on the north-west side of Hartlepool South Crescent and Headland, along with associated rear extensions at 16A Baptist Street and 32 St. Hilda’s Chare. The houses are primarily stuccoed over brick, except for the exposed brick frontage of number 1. Painted stone dressings are present, along with chamfered quoins at the corners. The roofs are covered in Welsh slate, and the terrace follows a gently curved, convex plan.

Numbers 1 to 6 and 32 are three storeys high. Number 1 features a pilaster and entablature doorcase on the left side, a late-19th-century sash window with a painted sill and wedge lintel below, a two-storey mid-20th-century segmental-plan bay window on the right side, and three 20th-century casement windows on the second floor, also with wedge lintels and sill bands. Houses 2 to 6 each have a wood pilaster-and-entablature doorcase on the right side. Numbers 2, 3, 4, 6 and 32 have two-storey canted bay windows flanked by pilasters. Number 5 includes a similar ground-floor bay window and two first-floor windows with cambered heads. Numbers 2 to 6 and 32 each feature two windows on the second floor with continuous sill bands. The windows of numbers 2 to 5 are late-19th-century sashes, while others have been altered in the mid- to late-20th century; all doors were renewed during the mid- to late-20th century. Numbers 3 to 6 and 32 have a narrow blocking course at the eaves, while numbers 1 and 2 include a narrow blocking course and a moulded eaves cornice on both end returns. The roof is continuous with hipped ends, concealed behind a shallow parapet. Six brick ridge stacks are present, along with a gabled dormer window on number 3. The left return includes two windows on the ground and first floors; the left-hand windows are mid-20th-century casements in enlarged openings, while the right-hand windows are sashes. Three second-floor openings are present, with a mid-20th-century casement window in the center and the others blocked. The right-hand return (number 32) displays three bays with a round-headed central doorway and mid-20th-century casement windows in original openings to the center and right-hand bays; other openings have been blocked. Later extensions to the rear are not of significance. A description of number 16A Baptist Street is included under the listing for numbers 1 to 6 South Crescent.