14-18, RAILWAY STREET

This terrace of circa 1846 buildings in stucco originally formed a symmetrical composition. The building at number 18 was replaced around 1984. Numbers 14 and 16 have low hipped slate roofs with flat eaves featuring moulded decoration on spaced brackets. Horizontal grooving is visible on the ground floor, incorporated into the windows and doorheads. A cill band runs along the first floor, with three hung sash windows to each ground floor, featuring glazing bars and shouldered, moulded architraves. Number 14 has recessed sashes with vertical glazing bars only, and number 16 has one window and a double-panelled coach house door to the ground floor. The entrances are paired, with three-panel doors, two of which are glazed, and rectangular fanlights within architrave cases, set back from the front. The openings are flanked and divided by Doric pilasters sitting on panelled bases, incorporating faceted dosserets or triglyphs in the frieze, and a moulded cornice that projects forward over them. Number 18 projects and has a low, parapeted front with two first-floor windows and a band at the cills. It has one ground-floor window and a panelled and glazed door.