254-260, ANLABY ROAD

Nos. 254-260 on Anlaby Road are two pairs of houses, now used as offices, built around 1880 with some alterations made in the late 20th century. The buildings are constructed from yellow brick with ashlar dressings, featuring rendered gables and slate roofs that have a single ridge, two gable stacks, and a single party wall stack. Each pair shares a similar design but with some variations in detail.

These structures are two stories tall, plus basements and attics, and have a six-window range. The houses at Nos. 254 and 256, located on the right, exhibit Gothic detailing, including a plinth and machicolated eaves. The central section features two plain sashes with lintels and segment-arched hoodmoulds, flanked by two plain sashes with pointed-arched heads and hoodmoulds. Above, there are two large through-eaves dormers with shouldered pointed-arched gables topped with finials, each containing a round-arched plain sash with a pointed hoodmould.

The entrance includes a central double-arched stone porch supported by columns on pedestals, featuring arch brackets to segmental pointed hoods with elliptical-arched shell interiors and hoodmoulds. The doors are recessed half-glazed panelled types with overlights. On either side of the porch, there are canted stone bay windows with arch brackets to segmental pointed hoods and elliptical-arched shell interiors. The left side has three plain sashes, while the right side has three late 20th-century casements.

Nos. 258 and 260, on the left, have a central arrangement of two plain sashes flanked by paired plain sashes, all with round heads and hoodmoulds. Above, there are two shouldered ogee gabled through-eaves dormers, each with a round-arched plain sash and hoodmould. The entrance features a central corniced wooden portico with two recessed half-glazed doors and overlights, accessed by stone steps. On either side, there are corniced wooden bay windows with carved capitals and three plain sashes.