4-8, Watling Street

WATLING STREET 1. (West Side) 1582 Nos 4 to 8 (even)

TL 1406 SW 16/325

II GV

1. Terrace. of C18 cottages, restored earlier C19. Red brick with low pitched slate roof, eaves soffit. No 4: 2 storeys, 5 windows. Gauged, segmental, brick arches to sash windows with glazing bars in flush, box frames. Door has panelled cornice hood on curved brackets, cornice head and decorative fanlight. Right hand bay appears to be a reproduction. No 6: 2 storeys, 2 windows, features exactly as No 4 but with earlier C19 door. No 8: 2 storeys, irregular. 0n 1st floor 2 mid-C19 windows at left, with stone cills and margin lights under gauged, brick arches. One similar window on ground floor. 1st floor centre window a 3-light C19 casement under inserted, heavy, red brick arch with keystone and ovolo moulding above. Door beneath has heavy cornice hood on curved brackets. Right hand windows on 1st and ground floors are recessed sashes with glazing bars in box frames under gauged, segmental brick arches and with inserted stone cills.

Nos 4 to 8 (even) form a group.

Listing NGR: TL1409406029