42 AND 44, OLD STREET (See details for further address information)

These cottages, numbered 42 and 44 Old Street, also incorporating 20 and 21 Brand Lane, were built in the later 18th century. They are constructed of painted brick with a Welsh slate roof and a brick stack to the rear. The buildings are arranged in an L-shape with a four-unit plan, and likely have a cellar as well as two storeys, an attic, and a probable cellar. The main façade has a four-window arrangement. To the right is a 20th-century casement window with a recessed panel above. To the left are a casement, a sliding sash window, and a further early 20th-century casement, set within brickwork. There's various detailing to the eaves, and a two-light gable dormer to the right. The projecting central bay features a four-panel door in a stop-chamfered case and a four-pane sash window under a segmental arch. A plank door, protected by a stone hood on rounded pilasters, leads to an alleyway. The left bay has a four-panel door under a rendered lintel, and a late 19th-century two-pane sash window under another rendered lintel, both within altered openings. On Brand Lane, the construction is brick - some from the early 20th century - with vertical weatherboarding and a plain tile roof. There’s a brick stack. This part is two storeys and an attic, featuring an early 20th-century casement window under a segmental arch with a brick sill and two further casements above. A 20th-century door is present, accompanied by a four-pane sash window in 18th-century brickwork, beneath a shouldered arch. A wing (number 20) additionally has a plank door and an 18th-century sash window to the right, set within patched brickwork with beaded softwood boarding above and a nine-pane sliding sash.