1-9, THE AVENUE

A terrace of nine houses, numbered 1-9, The Avenue, was built between 1880 and 1890, with later alterations. The design is by W.G. and A. Penty. The front of the houses is constructed with a red brick ground floor in an English garden-wall bond, a tile-hung first floor, and canted bays that have been white-washed and rough cast. The rear is of buff brick, also in English garden-wall bond. The front roof is tiled, while the rear is slate, incorporating flat dormers and brick stacks with deep stepped cornices. The front eaves are sprocketed and extend on shaped timber brackets, and the gables have fish-scale tiles at the apex and narrow plain bargeboards. Original cast-iron guttering is supported by cast-iron brackets.

The architectural style is Domestic Revival, and the terrace is two storeys and attics, comprising 19 bays. Each house features a two-bay front, with one bay of each being a two-storey canted bay. Of these, all but numbers 4, 5, and 6 are gabled and project slightly forward. Number 5 is double fronted, triple gabled, and projects to create a central feature. The original front doors are glazed with small panes and panelled, and are set beneath small-pane overlights in partially glazed screens. Porches are either segmental hoods on carved brackets or pent and cantilevered on shaped braces. The doors to numbers 1 and 9 are recessed to the right and left respectively and have flat canopy porches on shaped braces. Ground and first floor windows in the canted bays consist of five lights, accompanied by half lights at each end and moulded cornices. Numbers 1 and 9 have additional four-light ground floor windows beneath segmental arches; the first floor windows above these are of four lights, and those over the doors are of two lights. The original ground floor windows are plain casements with four-pane top-hung lights above a transom. The first floor windows are of two tiers of small four-pane casements. The attics, beneath gables, have three-light, eight-pane casement windows, while the flat dormers have six-pane casement windows of two or three lights. Windows at numbers 6 and 7 have been replaced.

The interior was not inspected. This terrace is a well-preserved and early example of the Domestic Revival style, executed on a late Victorian terrace by a significant local firm of architects.