55,56, Frenchwood Street

55 and 56 Frenchwood Street are a pair of small town houses built around 1835, although No. 56 has been rebuilt. They are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. The houses have a double-depth plan, each being single-fronted with coupled back extensions and a central through-lobby. They rise two storeys over cellars and feature a layout of two bays on the ground floor and two on the first floor, with a sill-band, plain frieze, and a moulded gutter cornice.

The doorways are arranged in a triplet at the center, with the lobby door situated between them. Each doorway is accessed by two altered steps and features round-headed architraves with set-in Tuscan quarter columns, plain lintels, and semicircular fanlights with convex moulded surrounds. The doors have been replaced with panelled doors, while the lobby doorway has a plain lintel and a board door. Each house has one window on the ground floor and two above; the windows at No. 55 are sashed without glazing bars (which are replacements), while those at No. 56 have been altered. All windows have raised sills and wedge lintels. The cellar windows are protected by grating at No. 55 and an iron plate at No. 56. Gable chimneys are present on both houses. The rear and interior of the properties were not inspected. This pair is part of what was once a complete set of late Georgian lower-middle-class town houses on this street.