2-20, Betley Street

A terrace of ten cottages dating to circa 1848, designed by John Cunningham as part of the original layout for the Grand Junction Railway Company by engineer Joseph Locke. The cottages are now private dwellings. They are constructed of brown brick with slate roofs, standing two storeys high and two bays wide each. Each cottage sits on a stone plinth and was originally built in pairs. The cottages are arranged handed, with entrance doors placed side by side beneath a single lintel. Modern multi-panelled doors have replaced the original six-panel doors, and slate-roofed canopies, supported on shaped timber brackets, have been added over the entrances. The windows are two-light horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars, stone sills, and flat, chamfered arches at both ground and first floor levels. A blank window is located centrally over each pair of front doors, at first floor level. The rear of the cottages feature framed, ledged and battened doors, along with horizontally sliding sashes. The end gables of the terraces are finished with shaped bargeboards. The cottages feature four-flue party wall stacks and blue tile ridges. The terrace was built as part of a larger development which also included numbers 1 to 19, Betley Street (odd), numbers 1 to 19, Dorfold Street (odd and even), and numbers 1 to 9, Tollitt Street.