24, 24A, 24B, PORTLAND STREET

This building, comprising numbers 24, 24A, and 24B Portland Street, is a house dating from around 1840, with later 19th-century alterations. It is constructed of brick with stone and timber dressings, and has a slate roof. The right gable is rendered. The front of the building features a plinth, bands indicating the positions of the first and second floors, brick pilasters, decorative modillion cornices, and coped gables.

The three-bay facade has a slightly projecting central section, highlighted by a two-storey round-headed recess. The upper floors contain three glazing bar sash windows in reeded surrounds, each with decorative paterae and keystones; the central window has a segmental head. Above this, the fenestration is identical but with smaller windows. The ground floor features a centrally positioned renewed four-panel door within a reeded surround, an overlight, and a small cornice. Flanking the entrance are a pair of late 19th-century shopfronts, each with pilasters and bracketed cornices, incorporating a single window and a half-glazed door set within a splayed recess.