Numbers 66-74 Street

Numbers 66-74 Street is a range of four shops and townhouses, now comprising three shops with an office above No. 70, dating from the mid-18th century. The building features a brown brick facade in Flemish bond and a grey slate roof that runs parallel to the street.

The structure has three storeys and attics, with rusticated quoins of painted stone at the south end, although most have been removed, leaving only two above the cornice at the north end. The shopfronts are of 20th-century design, maintaining a genteel appearance. The windows are flush sashes with painted stone sills and rusticated wedge lintels, which may be false, and most have corniced keystones.

On the second storey, No. 66 has a pair of tall 15-pane sashes, No. 68 features a shorter 16-pane sash, No. 72 has two replaced 2-pane windows beside a blocked opening, and No. 74 has two 4-pane sashes. The third storey includes two 12-pane sashes for No. 66, one for No. 68, replaced 2-pane windows for No. 72 beside a blocked opening with gauged brick heads and plain lintels, and two 4-pane sashes for No. 74. A cornice beneath the parapet consists of six brick courses topped with plain stone coping.

Each of Nos. 66 and 68 has a gabled roof dormer, while No. 72 features a full-width raking dormer with horizontally-sliding sashes. There are brick chimneys located at the south end of No. 66, on the ridge of No. 68, three between Nos. 68 and 72, and one at the north end of No. 74.

The interiors could not be thoroughly inspected, but notable features include a rock-cut brick barrel-vaulted cellar measuring 7 by 3.5 meters, which has a former beer-drop that is now blocked in stone. Similar cellars may exist in other parts of the range. In the upper storeys, there are chamfered oak beams, some with lambs tongue stops, and some Georgian staircases.