31-37, UNION STREET

A terrace of four early 19th century houses, now used as three shops and one house, is situated on Union Street. The buildings are three storeys high, with attics to numbers 31 and 35, and have three bays each. The facade is primarily multi-coloured stock brick with parapets; number 31 is stuccoed. Numbers 31 and 35 have slate mansard roofs with dormers concealed behind a brick parapet. The upper portion of number 37 appears to have been rebuilt.

Number 31’s ground floor, formerly a shop front and now housing garage entrances and a house entrance, features four fluted Doric columns supporting a frieze and cornice above a wider central opening and flanking side openings. The first and second floors have sash windows set within tall round-arched recesses with impost bands. Number 33’s ground floor was boarded up at the time of survey. Number 35 has an altered shop front with pilasters, a panelled dado, a door to the right, and a recent fascia board above. Its first floor has four-pane sash windows, and its second floor has six-pane sash windows, all with glazing bars and gauged, flat brick arches. Number 37’s ground floor has an altered shop front with a door to the left and a further private door to the left, recessed with a cornice head. Sash windows with glazing bars are set within gauged, flat brick arches (with no central window on the second floor). A stuccoed dentil cornice runs along the top of the facade. Some sash windows are missing.

The interior was not inspected.