1-7, Harold Avenue

ADWICK-LE-STREET HAROLD AVENUE SE 50 NW (west side), Woodlands

11/19 Nos. 1-7 (odd) II Group of 4 houses. 1908, partly altered. By Percy Houfton for the Brodsworth Colliery Company. Roughcast, later cement-tile roof. 2 storeys, total of 8 windows to 1st floor; near-symmetrical composition with the right half set lower and the end houses beneath gables. Casements with glazing bars to all original windows. No. 7 (to left) has doorway with rock-faced, stone-quoined jambs and hoodmould stepped over lintel decorated by a shield with cross; window to left of 3 lights and to right of 4 lights; tile dripmoulds. 1st floor has two 3-light windows with tile dripcourse beneath gable. No. 5 (adjacent) has similar doorway with lozenge on lintel under peaked hoodmould flanked by windows of 4 lights on ground floor and of 3 lights on 1st floor. No. 3 is as No. 5 but set lower. No. 1 (to right) has original door surround but all windows altered. Swept eaves. Corniced end stacks corbelled from the gables; 3 matching ridge stacks on the party walls. Part of Woodlands colliery village (see under Church of All Saints, Central Avenue). Least altered example of its type.

Listing NGR: SE5306108133