30, 31 AND 32, BRITTON STREET

This is a group of three terraced houses on Britton Street, dating from 1720-23. They were developed by Simon Michell and built by George Greaves. The houses are built of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with tiled roofs. They are four storeys high, with a basement, and originally had two windows each.

Number 30 has a late 20th-century replacement shop or office front, and the first and second floors are stuccoed. The windows on these floors are flat-arched, with moulded architraves and original 6/6 sash windows. It has a parapet and a dormer window that extends across the full width of the roof.

Number 31 has a flat-arched entrance with a reeded architrave, cornice, and overlight. The architrave continues as a cornice over the two flat-arched windows above. It has segmental-arched windows to the first and second floors, with heads of gauged red brick, a red brick storey band, a parapet, and a dormer with a wooden cornice in a mansard roof.

Number 32 has a late 20th-century replacement shop or office front, segmental-arched windows to the first and second floors with gauged brick heads to the first floor. The window frames are set almost flush with the wall, and it features a red brick storey band, a parapet, and a dormer in a mansard roof.

A rainwater head is located between numbers 31 and 32 and is inscribed with ‘1984 H’. Party wall stacks are present.

The interior of number 31 has simple, unmoulded panelling on the three principal floors. The north, or party, wall in the entrance hall and stairwell is panelled to dado height only, with the remainder reaching the full height and featuring wood or plaster cornices. Corner chimneys to the back rooms have been rebuilt as cupboards. The staircase has turned balusters and a closed string. The ground floor front and back rooms have been combined, with alterations to the early 19th-century mouldings on the dado and either side of the front windows. Replacement panelling is present on the south wall of the front room, between the rooms, and to the rebuilt corner chimney in the back room. The first-floor front room lacks panelling on the front wall. The interiors of numbers 30 and 32 have not been inspected.