3, 5, 7 AND 9, ALBERT ROAD

This is a terrace of four houses, numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9 Albert Road, completed in 1868 as part of Titus Salt’s model village of Saltaire, designed by Lockwood and Mawson. The houses are built of hammer-dressed stone with a Welsh slate roof. They are arranged symmetrically, with each house originally consisting of two bays. A shared doorcase with pilaster jambs, a central engaged colonnette, a frieze, and a cornice serves two central doorways. The entrances to the end houses are set back slightly. The second bay of each end house projects forward, is gabled, and features a two-light Venetian Gothic window on the first floor; this includes a central colonnette, a blind circle in the tympanum, and alternately coloured voussoirs. Originally, two-light sash windows with cornices were present on the ground floor, but mullions have since been removed from all but number 3. The remaining first-floor windows have been altered to single lights set within a sill band. Stone stacks are located on the front and rear roof pitches. The roofs are hipped. The terrace forms part of the wider Saltaire village.