64-70, WILLOW STREET

A terrace of four houses built in 1804, with later additions and alterations, is located on Willow Street in Oswestry. The houses are constructed of red brick, with some portions stuccoed and featuring imitation angle quoins on the right-hand side (number 64). They have a slate roof and red brick ridge stacks. The building is three storeys high, with a moulded wooden eaves cornice and a band running along the first-floor window sills. The front facade has eight windows. The first-floor windows are segmental-headed, with tripartite sashes; these alternate with narrower round-arched windows, most of which are blind except for the one at number 64, which contains a plate-glass sash. The second floor has smaller recessed windows with cambered heads, and the second, fourth and sixth windows from the left are blind, matching the first floor. A central entrance, serving numbers 66 and 68, features stuccoed, fluted pilasters with moulded caps supporting a plain brick segmental arch. It has a panelled door with glazed upper and lower sections, flanked by vertical panels, and a 20th-century rectangular stained glass overlight. The entrances to numbers 64 and 70 have pilastered doorcases with panelled reveals, soffits and fanlights; number 70 has a six-panel door. A rear range attached to numbers 66 and 68 has a pediment containing a recessed datestone reading “GV/1804” within a roundel.