17,18,19 AND 19A, OLD TOWN

This is a terrace of three town houses, with a flat above the last one (number 19A), built between 1841 and 1842. The buildings are constructed of brick with buff brick headers and ashlar dressings, and have a fishscale tile roof with two brick stacks running centrally and one at each end. They are designed in a Victorian-Tudor style.

The three houses are two storeys high plus an attic, and have a 9-window front. They are divided by brick pilasters. A sill band runs across the first floor, and above that is a brick frieze, with Tudor arches above the gablets at each end. The gablets have decorative bargeboards with finials and fascia, and the left end is curved.

The entrances have hollow-chamfered reveals and shaped mouldings above the doors, featuring overlights with three pointed lights above four-panel doors with applied tracery. The door to the left-hand house has been altered. The windows have sills, hollow-chamfered reveals, and shaped mouldings above. The ground-floor windows have 16 panes, with pointed tops to the upper sashes. The first-floor windows have 12 panes, and the second-floor gable windows have 6 panes. A central first-floor window at number 18 has margin lights and a pointed upper pane. The stacks have fluted shafts.

The rear of the buildings has two-storey lean-to extensions and two lateral stacks. Alterations were made to the right-hand end in the 20th century. The architectural detailing shares similarities with number 6 Old Town, numbers 14 and 15 Warwick Road, and houses in Bishopton.