72-74 Bewsey Street

Early-C19 three-storey terrace houses with basements.

MATERIALS: fair-faced orange clamp brick construction, painted ashlar string course, lintels and cills, and a Welsh slate clad roof.

PLAN: rectangular plan with off-set extended projecting rectangular plan two-storey rear ranges.

EXTERIOR

Front Elevations: no.72 and 74 Bewsey Street have identical three-storey, two-bay, front elevations with basements. A straight join exists at the junction of No.72 and 74 Bewsey Street and the elevations are not keyed together. The basement windows of both houses have been bricked-up. The ground floor of each house has an off-set front doorway beneath a large glazed fanlight set within a round arch of rubbed brick. The four-panel timber front door is set in a recessed timber door frame with fluted panelled pilasters, which is flanked by a single twelve-light timber sash window with a painted ashlar cill and canted lintels. A painted continuous projecting ashlar string course crosses the elevation at first-floor level and forms a cill to the pair of twelve-light sash windows with plain painted ashlar canted lintels. The second floor of each house is lit by a pair of six-light sash windows with painted ashlar cills and canted lintels. The roof has a central ridge, is clad in Welsh slates and has cast-iron rain water goods mounted above timber facia boards. Wide brick-built chimney stacks are situated above the party walls of No.72 and 74 Bewsey Street, and No.74 Bewsey Street and No.1 Froghall Lane.

Rear elevations: the rear three-storey elevations of No.72 and 74 Bewsey Street were originally identical, with single twelve-light sash windows to the ground and first-floors, with a pair of windows to the second-floor. Both now have off-set, rectangular-plan, two-storey, two-bay rear ranges with mono-pitch Welsh slate roofs that occupy approximately two-thirds of the width of the rear elevation of each house.

INTERIOR: not inspected.