5-8, Winckley Street

Nos. 5-8 on Winckley Street are a row of four townhouses, now used as offices, built around 1800 and altered over time. They are constructed of red brick in a 4+1 English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. Each house has a rectangular double-depth plan and is single-fronted, standing three storeys high over cellars. The first floor features seven windows arranged in a pattern of 2, 1, 1, and 3.

The doorways are located to the left of each house, all having square heads with moulded architraves, set-in steps, and recessed panelled doors. No. 5 has an overlight above its door, while Nos. 6, 7, and 8 have taller doorways with lintels between the doors and their overlights. To the immediate left of No. 8 is a lobby doorway with a plain surround. Each house has a cellar window with a wedge lintel, although the windows for Nos. 5 and 8 are now blocked.

At the ground floor, Nos. 5, 6, and 7 feature large square windows with raised sills, rectangular lintels, and altered glazing, while No. 8 has two tall top-hung casements with glazing bars. The first and second floors have sashed windows with raised sills and wedge lintels, but the glazing varies: No. 5 has 4 and 6 panes; No. 6 has 4 and 12 panes; No. 7 has 16 and 12 panes; and No. 8 has 12 and 9 panes. Ridge chimneys are present on the roofs.

Above the door of No. 7 is a stone plaque inscribed with "Francis Joseph Thompson/ Was Born in this House/ Dec.18. 1859." To the right, there is a larger bronze plaque featuring a bust of Thompson, identifying him as a poet and noting his birth date as December 16, along with the lines "Ever and anon a trumpet sounds/ From the hid battlements of Eternity" from "The Hound of Heaven."

Inside, the cellars are arranged in two rooms, with No. 7 featuring a fireplace in the front room and a stone table in the rear. The houses have stick-baluster staircases, batten-and-board doors, built-in cupboards, and reed ceilings at the top floor of No. 7.