13 and 15, Bell Street

Nos 13 and 15 on Bell Street are a pair of late 18th-century semi-detached houses made of tall red brick. They are double-depth with a parapet surrounding the building. The houses rise three storeys and each has two windows. The roofs are parallel, hipped, and covered with slate, featuring a large central chimney that bridges the valley gutter. At the eastern end, there is a single-storey rear kitchen built in English bond with a lateral stack and a monopitch slate roof.

The front of the houses is finely jointed red brick, showcasing gauged brick flat arches above the recessed sash windows, which have three panes by six panes on the second floor and six panes by six panes on the first floor. The ground floor features a double shopfront with narrow pilasters flanking doorways at each end and a broader pilaster in the centre, topped with a continuous entablature that has scrolled terminations at both ends. The doors are six-panel flush doors, and the pilasters have echinus caps. There is a modern recessed shopfront at No 13 and brick infill at No 15. The rear elevation is made of red stock brick with segmental window arches. These houses are significant to the street scene.