Numbers 4 And 5 And Railings Attached To Number 5

Numbers 4 and 5 are two terraced houses built between 1828 and 1829, with number 4 featuring a late 19th-century corner shopfront. They were designed by William Chadwell Mylne, who was the Surveyor for the New River Estate. The houses are constructed of yellow stock brick laid in Flemish bond, with a wooden corner shopfront for number 4 and a banded stucco ground floor for number 5, both adorned with stucco dressings. Number 4 has a Welsh-slate gabled roof, while the roof of number 5 is obscured, and both have party-wall brick stacks.

The buildings are two storeys high with a basement. Number 4 has a ground-floor shop with a side-hall entrance leading to domestic upper floors, while number 5 also features a side-hall entrance. Number 4 has two windows plus a two-window left-hand return wall facing Arlington Way. The shopfront of number 4 includes a fine corner double shop door flanked by shop windows, with panelled pilasters that support a fascia reading 'Thos. Treacy' and a projecting cornice. There is a round-arched house side entrance on the left-hand return, featuring a doorway with fluted quarter columns, a corniced head, a radial fanlight, and an original panelled door. Number 5 has a 20th-century door with jambs supporting a corniced head and a rectangular overlight, along with original panelled doors. The ground floor of number 5 has a round-arched 1-over-1 sash window.

Both buildings have gauged-brick flat arches with 6-over-6 sashes on the upper floors. The first floor features a stucco sill band beneath full-length sashes, each with individual cast-iron balconies. A notable painted advertisement on the return wall facing Arlington Way reads: 'Thomas Treacy Funeral Director Funerals of all Denominations Burials Embalmings Cremations'. The buildings are topped with a plain brick parapet and stone coping, and there are attached cast-iron railings to number 5.