9 And 10 The Crescent

Nos 9 and 10 The Crescent are a pair of semi-detached council houses built between 1919 and 1920, designed by George Skipper. They are constructed from rendered clay-lump with pantile roofs featuring plain barge boards and a central brick ridge stack. The houses are one storey plus attics and have a symmetrical layout. The main front includes single half-glazed doors on both the right and left, each with timber lean-to porches. Flanking these doors are small glazing bar casements, with two-light glazing bar casements situated between them. Above the windows, there is a continuous wooden drip shelf supported by ornate wooden brackets. At the eaves, there are two single small glazing bar casements, and between them is a pair of two-light glazing bar casements set within a central gable. This pair of windows also features a drip shelf supported by similar brackets, with weatherboarding in the gable above. These houses were part of an initiative by Norfolk County Council to explore economical house building techniques.