Whitwood Terrace

Whitwood Terrace is a terrace of 19 dwellings built in 1904 by C. F. A. Voysey for Henry Briggs & Son. The terrace was constructed for a colliery company to house colliery foremen. The buildings are constructed of roughcast render on brick, with tiled roofs. It is a long rectangular range comprising double-depth and double-fronted units. The terrace rises to one and a half and two storeys and is designed in the Arts and Crafts style. The facade is rhythmically punctuated by emphatic gables of single, two-storey houses alternating with shorter, one-and-a-half storey ranges comprising pairs. Each house is symmetrical, featuring a central doorway and two three-light casement windows on each floor. The gabled elements have small side windows to the door, and flanking rectangular bay windows, all sheltered by a flat roof canopy over the door. The canopy features an overlight above the door, widely-spaced windows at first floor, a horizontal band at window head level, and another band in the gable above. The lower, intermediate ranges have a flat canopy above each door, with an overlight, a band above each ground floor window, over-sailing eaves supported by slender gutter brackets, and hipped dormers in the roof. Three tall chimneys are situated on the ridge between each pair of gables. The rear elevation, in matching style, features a four-light dormer to each one-and-a-half storey house. A notable feature is the wide, segmental-arched recessed porch to each house, originally intended to shelter services such as drying laundry, but now in some cases enclosed by glazed walls. All houses have individual back yards enclosed by brick walls, incorporating back gates, and a rectangular privy/coal shed building to each pair in the rear wall, with a square emptying door in the rear wall of each privy.