6-44, HIGHER ROAD

This is a row of houses begun in 1793. The buildings are constructed from squared coursed sandstone with a slate roof and brick stacks, with the exception of the gable-end stack on the left-hand wall of number 44. The houses are two storeys high and include cellars, accessed at lower ground level from the rear. The windows have plain reveals and projecting stone sills, now with modern windows. Each house is a single bay wide, with the doors of adjacent houses paired. A third door, leading through a tunnel to the rear yard, is located between the paired doors. The doorways have simple stone surrounds. Some houses now have an additional window on the first floor above the doorway. Stone gutter brackets are present on numbers 6, 8, and 44. A keyed joint between numbers 24 and 26 indicates a break in construction during the building process. The row was built by the Longridge Building Society, considered one of the earliest terminating building societies. The development is noted as an example in Price’s 1958 work, "Building Societies, their Origin and History."