139 AND 139A, CORVE STREET

This pair of late 18th-century houses, likely built on the site of an earlier timber-frame structure, are now used as shops and flats. They are constructed of painted and roughcast brick with a Welsh slate roof, featuring a brick end stack and two stacks to the rear. The houses are three storeys high with a five-window facade. The upper floors contain 6/6 sash windows, one of which is 20th century, set in beaded cases and topped with gauged brick flat arches. Above those are narrower 3/6 sash windows. The ground floor has a half-glazed 19th-century door, sheltered by a coved hood on pilasters, a plain sash window to the right, and a passage to the rear to the left. A half-glazed door and a late 19th-century shopfront are also on the left side. Timber framing from the 18th century is visible in the right wall of the passage to the rear, and the rear stack has a rubble base.