13 New Street

Late C18 house, converted into flats in the late C20 or early C21.

MATERIALS: brick covered in render painted off-white with a roof covering of slate.

PLAN: 13 New Street is positioned at the end of a row of terraced buildings facing west onto New Street. It has an L-shaped plan consisting of the main range and rear south wing.

EXTERIOR: the three-storey, three-bay house is in a late Georgian style with classical proportions. It has a symmetrical façade with a moulded plinth and stucco band between the ground and first-floor windows. The north gable end has a parapet at the gable and a chimney stack without pots. The fenestration consists of recessed six-over-six pane sash windows on the ground and first floors, and three-over-three pane sashes on the second floor, none of which are original. The window on the right-hand, ground-floor bay has margin lights. The centrally placed entrance has a modern six-panel door and rectangular overlight without glazing bars. The front door is flanked by panelled square pilasters, and another pair is positioned at each end of the façade. At the rear of the house there is a narrow two-storey extension of red brick under a pitched roof, probably added around the late C19. The right return contains two bricked up windows under segmental brick arches.

INTERIOR: the house has been converted into flats and retains little of the original joinery, fixtures and fittings, other than some skirting boards, cornicing, picture rails and the staircase at the end of the long, narrow hall which has decorative carved tread ends and stick balusters supporting the moulded handrail. The attic floor has exposed purlins, supported by modern bracing. There is a coal shaft in the brick vaulted coal cellar which has been partitioned.