75-85 Etnam Street (odd)

Terrace of five cottages and a former public house, constructed in the late 18th to early 19th century, with minor alterations during the later 19th century. Number 75 may have earlier origins and was converted from a public house to a dwelling in the late 20th century.

The terrace is constructed of red brick with different finishes applied to the principal, south elevation of each cottage. Number 75 is of painted brickwork; Number 77 has exposed red brick in Flemish bond; and Numbers 79–85 have roughcast rendering. The roof covering is natural slate except at Number 79, which has composite tiles.

Numbers 77 to 85 are arranged on a rectangular, one-bay plan with two rooms upstairs and two rooms downstairs. Number 75 occupies a wider and longer plan, with two bays onto Etnam Street and a pitch-roofed range extending northward. Each property has been extended to the rear (north) to greater or lesser extents.

The terrace comprises six properties, five of which (Numbers 77 to 85) are of matching design, with Number 75 being larger and formerly in use as a public house. The terrace has a continuous pitched roof from Number 75 to Number 83, with Number 85 having a separate hipped roof and dentillated eaves, and being slightly taller than the rest of the terrace. The ridgeline is punctuated by three tall chimney stacks on the party walls between Numbers 75 and 77, Number 79 and 81, and Numbers 81 to 83. Number 85 has a separate ridge stack rising from its hipped roof. There are three further chimney stacks to the rear extensions.

Number 75, at the western end of the terrace, has a corner entrance on Etnam Street with a modern (late 20th century) door within a moulded frame with elaborate scroll brackets above. Immediately to the east of the door, on the Etnam Street elevation, is a glazed ceramic tile bearing the West Country Ales logo with the motto 'BEST IN THE WEST'. To the east of the tile are two window openings with stucco cills and rendered, flat-arched heads, containing 20th century timber casements. There are two windows each on the first and second floors, those on the first floor being larger, with rendered flat-arched heads and a unifying cill band. All four contain 20th century timber casements matching those on the ground floor. The west elevation, onto Dukes Walk, is of three storeys stepping down to two. Within the three-storey, south range is a timber sash window with eight-over-eight glazing lighting a staircase from ground to first floor, and a small, 20th century casement to the second floor. The uneven surface of the first floor of the two-storey north range may indicate timber framing within and therefore an earlier construction date. This range has a pitched roof and has a two-over-two glazed, timber sash window on the ground floor and an eight-over-eight glazed, timber sash window on the first floor. Both windows have rendered cills. Adjacent to the ground-floor window is a bricked-up doorway with a retained boot scraper. There is a further, single-storey, brick extension to the north, probably of the 20th century.

Numbers 77 to 85 are of largely matching design, consisting of a single-bay frontage with a single column of timber sash windows to each floor and an adjacent doorway on the ground floor – at Numbers 77, 81 and 83, the doorway is to the east of the window and at Numbers 79 and 85 the doorway is to the west. The ground- and first-floor windows to all five cottages have stucco cills and rendered, flat-arched heads, with those at Numbers 79, 81 and 83 being rusticated. The glazing pattern varies slightly across the five cottages. Numbers 77, 79, 81 and 83 are largely matching, with six-over-six glazing to the ground and first floor and three-over-three glazing to the second floor, the exceptions being at Numbers 79 and 81 where the ground-floor windows have two-over-two glazing. At Number 85, the ground and first-floor windows are larger, with eight-over-eight glazing. Nearly all windows are set within moulded timber frames slightly recessed within the façade, again with the exception of the ground-floor windows at Numbers 79 and 81, where the windows are more deeply recessed and have no visible surrounds. The doors and doorframes vary between each property. Number 77 has a six-panelled door beneath a plain, rectangular overlight, within a moulded timber doorcase with consoles and an open pediment hood. Number 79 has a 20th century, multi-panelled door set within a moulded timber doorcase with bosses to the header. Numbers 81 and 83 have late 20th century doors set within plain doorframes with simple, flat hoods. Number 85 has a 20th century, four-panelled door set within a reeded timber doorframe with a flat, lead hood.

Along with Number 75, all five cottages appear to have been extended to the rear (north).