38 And 40, Dodington

A pair of houses dating from the early 19th century, located in Dodington. The houses are built of red brick with a plain tile roof. They have a sandstone plinth, painted on the right side and rendered on the left, with a plat band between the ground and first floors, similarly finished. A moulded wooden eaves cornice runs along the top of the house, with a fascia on the left side, and the gable ends are parapeted with stone copings and kneelers. Brick end stacks and a central brick ridge stack are integrated into the design. The windows are primarily 16-pane glazing bar sashes, with painted stone sills and gauged-brick heads. The central first-floor windows of each house are 12-pane sashes, and the second-floor windows are generally 9-pane sashes, except for two central gabled semi-dormers which have 16-pane sashes. Modern doors are located in the second bay from the left and the second bay from the right, each set within a doorcase with a moulded architrave, plain surround, and consoles supporting a moulded cornice. The left-hand gable end features two attic glazing bar sashes, a late 19th-century oriel window on the first floor, and a ground-floor glazing bar sash on the right. The interior of number 40 includes an entrance hall with a moulded plaster cornice and a wooden staircase with a moulded closed string, column-on-vase balusters, a columnular foot newel, and a moulded handrail. The interior of number 38 was not inspected.