9-21, Rodney Street

A terrace of seven houses located on Rodney Street, built in the late 18th century. The houses are constructed of brick with stone dressings, and have slate roofs. Each house has three storeys plus a basement, and is three bays wide. The windows have wedge lintels and are sash windows. A cornice runs along the top of the building. Number 9 has ground floor casement windows. The entrance to Number 9 is paired with that of Number 11, featuring round-headed doorways with three Doric columns and pediments. Number 11 has lengthened first-floor windows. Numbers 13 and 15 have paired, straight-headed entrances, and an attached portico with four Doric columns and two pediments. The roof is a Mansard roof with pedimented dormers. Numbers 17 and 19 have entrances similar to Numbers 9 and 11; Number 17 has a six-panel door, and Number 19 has a complete fanlight. A first-floor sill band is present, and the upper windows have glazing bars. Number 21 has a stuccoed ground floor, a straight-headed entrance, and glazing bars to the upper windows. Number 9 was the birthplace of Arthur Clough, the poet (born 1819), and Anne Clough, the first principal of Newnham College (born 1820).