63-67, Frenchwood Street

A row of five small town houses built around 1830-35, altered subsequently. The houses are constructed of red brick in a variety of bonds – English garden wall bond for numbers 63, 64, 66 and 67, and Flemish bond for number 67; numbers 64 and 66 are now roughcast, and number 63 is painted red. They have sandstone dressings and slate roofs, except for number 66 which has a concrete tile roof. The houses are double-depth, each with a single-fronted facade and individual rear extensions. Through-lobbies are present on the right side of each house except number 66, which has a lobby on the left.

The houses are two storeys over cellars, with 2, 1, 1, 2, and 2 bays respectively, featuring a plain frieze and a moulded gutter cornice. The doorways are located to the left of each house, except for number 65, which forms a triplet with number 66, with a lobby door situated between them. Each doorway has one step, a round-headed architrave with set-in Tuscan quarter-columns, a plain lintel, and a semi-circular fanlight with a hollow-moulded surround; the fanlight of number 67 has radiating glazing bars, while the others are plain. Numbers 65 and 67 have six-panel doors, while the doors of the other houses have been altered. Numbers 63 and 67 have lobby doors on the right. All windows have raised sills, and the ground-floor windows have wedge lintels, with all windows having altered glazing. Number 63 is wider than the others, and the window openings on the two floors are not vertically aligned. Cellar windows are mostly casements, protected by gratings. Ridge chimneys are present. The interiors have not been inspected. The row of houses once formed part of a complete set of late Georgian lower-middle class dwellings in Frenchwood Street.