28-34, HILL STREET

Two pairs of houses, built around 1700 and heightened in the mid-18th century, with later 19th-century alterations. The houses are constructed of rubble with cut dressings, with the right-hand properties, numbers 32 and 34, featuring rock-faced stone. They have a Welsh slate roof and brick stacks, an old brick stack to number 30 and 20th-century brick stacks to numbers 32 and 34. Each part of the building stands two storeys high and has two bays.

The taller right-hand part has a renewed door in a bolection-moulded surround at number 30, with the date ‘1700’ carved in relief above. A renewed door has been inserted on the right-hand side, and there's an inserted window above the number 30 door. The bays either side of the number 30 door have windows with lower openings in raised moulded surrounds, featuring relieving arches designed to resemble voussoirs, and upper windows with moulded heads and sills; all are early 19th-century casements. The left-hand end of this section has a raised, reverse-stepped gable coping and a stack.

The left-hand part of the building has a pair of renewed doors leading to numbers 32 and 34, with a pair of 3-light flat-faced mullioned windows above. These are flanked by similar 2-light ground floor windows (the window to number 34 has lost its mullion), all with hoodmoulds. All openings are late 19th-century and have 20th-century glazing. Inside number 30, a rear doorway, now internal, features a chamfered flat-pointed arch. A 20th-century rear extension to number 30 is not of architectural interest.

Numbers 32 and 34 are included in the listing for their group value.