17-25, HENRY STREET

A row of five cottages, now four dwellings, likely built around the 1840s and 1850s and subsequently altered. The cottages are constructed with scored stucco on cobble, featuring sandstone dressings and a slate roof. They have a double-depth plan, originally single-fronted, with numbers 21 and 23 combined into one dwelling; number 25 is set back on the left end. The row has two low storeys and a consistent 2+2+2+2+2 window arrangement. Numbers 17, 23, and 25 each have small gabled porches, with the porch of number 25 integrated into the re-entrant angle at the corner. Numbers 19 and 21 share a taller gabled porch, with doorways on the side walls (the doorway of number 21 having been altered into a window), and 2-light mullioned windows facing forward. Each cottage has a single 3-light mullioned window on the ground floor and two smaller 2-light windows on the first floor, all with raised sills and chamfered lintels. Ridge chimneys are present. Attached garden walls, approximately 1 metre high, run in front of the cottages and along the east returned end of the plot. These walls are made of slobbered cobble, although the walls of numbers 21 and 23 have been recently rendered. The returned side wall rises to around 2 metres high at the rear corner of the block and is constructed of cobble interspersed with red brick.