2-20, Dorfold Street

A terrace of ten cottages dating from around 1848, designed by John Cunningham as part of a layout for the Grand Junction Railway Company by engineer Joseph Locke. The cottages are now private dwellings. They are built of brown brick with slate roofs, and sit upon a stone plinth. Each cottage is two storeys and two bays wide, arranged in pairs with projecting gables and Tudor-arched entrance porches on either side. The original entrance doors have been replaced with multi-panel doors. Single-light casement windows are located in the porch gables, while the other windows are two-light, horizontally sliding sashes, all with stone sills and flat chamfered arches. Each porch gable features a small, blank sunken panel with a chamfered surround and a slightly shaped narrow barge board. A moulded fascia supports an eaves gutter, with lead valleys, four-flue party wall stacks and blue tile ridges. The cottages were constructed as part of a larger development which also included numbers 1 to 19 in Odd Dorfold Street, 1 to 19 in Odd Betley Street, and 1 to 9 in Tollitt Street.