Primes Close

Primes Close consists of two houses built in 1847, facing each other across a small green. They were part of a development of almshouses and have been enlarged and divided in the 20th century. The houses are constructed of gault and red brick with peg and clay tiled roofs.

The front elevations, facing east and west, feature gault brick and have three windows, a central doorway, and prominent gault gable-end stacks with paired diagonally set shafts. The doorway is chamfered with a four-centre arched head and has a boarded door with two leaves. There are four similar windows with chamfered reveals, splayed sills, and sliding sashes with glazing bars, arranged as 4x4 panes. The central first-floor window is a projecting gabled brick oriel supported by a concave corbel, featuring a two-light casement window with 2x4 panes.

The rear elevations, also facing east and west, are made of red brick with some burnt headers. They have 20th-century casement windows on the outer ends, arranged as 2x4 panes. There is a central two-storey 20th-century addition with a stairway, casement windows with glazing bars, and a 20th-century door.

No. 1A is an addition in red brick and rendered, while No. 9A is built of yellow-grey brick with a doorway that projects to the south. The north and south end elevations feature gables with moulded barge-boards and date plaques on the north ends. The south end of Nos. 1 and 1A has casement windows on the ground and first floors, arranged as 2x3 panes and 2x4 panes respectively.