Numbers 2-14 And Front Garden Walls And Gate Piers

A terrace of seven small houses, Numbers 2 to 14 (even), with associated front garden walls and gate piers, was built in 1823 and subsequently altered. The houses are constructed of handmade red brick in Flemish bond, with sandstone dressings, wooden bays and porches, and have slate roofs. They are arranged with a double-depth plan, each house being single-fronted with various rear extensions.

The terrace presents a two-storey, fourteen-window facade (two windows per house), with a plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice. Doorways are located to the left of each house, except for Number 14, which is coupled with Number 12. The doors are square-headed, with part-glazed panelled doors featuring two 2-centred arched lights with Y-tracery. Small wooden trellis porches with swept hipped roofs originally sheltered the doors at Numbers 2 to 10, but Numbers 12 and 14 now have recessed porches created by the forward extension of the ground floor. At ground floor, most houses have large wooden, five-sided canted bay windows, though Number 10 retains original French windows with Tudor-arched glazing and margin panes, albeit lacking its original cornice. Number 8’s bay window retains its original dentilled frieze and moulded cornice, but the French windows have been altered. The other bays lack cornices and have been altered, with most of the glazing being twentieth century, except for Number 2, which has nineteenth-century sash windows with 24 and 18 panes. The forward extensions at ground floor of Numbers 12 and 14 have canted bays with altered glazing, with uPVC used in Number 12. At first floor, each house incorporates a pair of small, rectangular two-light windows with raised stone surrounds and 2-centred arched lights with Y-tracery. The windows at Number 10 are sashed while the others are now casements. A moulded rainwater head dated "1823" is located at Number 12. The rear elevations have been largely altered, though some retain hornless sashes. The interiors were not inspected.

The houses are set within small front gardens enclosed by brick walls approximately 1 metre high, featuring moulded stone coping. Each house has a pair of monolith gate piers with 2-centred arched tops. Historically, the painter JMW Turner lived in one of the houses while painting in the district.