22-28, NELSON STREET

22-28 Nelson Street is a range of four houses, now three (Nos 22, 24, and 26-28), dating from the early 17th century and refaced in the late 18th century. The buildings are constructed of brick, rendered and colourwashed on Nos 26-28, with a plaintile roof. The two formerly central houses are designed on a lobby entrance plan. They are two storeys tall with a dormer attic. Nos 22 and 24 feature panelled doors on the left side of their elevations, each under pedimented hoods supported by 20th-century consoles. To the right of each door is one sash window with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches; the sash window for No. 24 is set in a flush frame. No. 22 has a platband at the first floor below two sash windows with glazing bars. There is a modillion timber eaves cornice. No. 24 is lit at the first floor by two late 17th-century two-light cross casements with glazing bars and renewed opening lights. Between No. 24 and the six-bay Nos 26-28 is a passage leading to the rear. Nos 26-28 have rusticated quoins and keystones above their windows. There are panelled doors in the third and sixth bays, with the former featuring a gabled hood and the latter being unused. The fenestration consists of mid-18th-century sashes with glazing bars, and there are blind windows above each door. The entire range has a gabled roof with one gabled dormer for each house and two symmetrically placed stepped 17th-century ridge stacks. The passage to the rear includes timber studwork. The rear features a two-storey hipped wing to the south, which is lit by an early 17th-century four-light mullioned and leaded casement at the first-floor level. The rear of No. 24 has a two-storey gabled wing, which is lit at the first floor by a three-light early 18th-century casement.

The interior of only Nos 26-28 was inspected. These were formerly two houses and have a lobby entrance, with blocked fireplaces. The north wall of the ground-floor room in No. 26 features large-framed 18th-century panelling and a shell cupboard in the north-east corner. A late 20th-century staircase is present.