17-20, Belvedere Square

This is a row of cottages dating from the mid to late 19th century, forming part of the planned development of Belvedere Square. The cottages are constructed of polychrome brick with a tall Welsh slate roof, featuring crested ridge tiles and tall brick stacks with cogged cornices and decorative bargeboards. Each house has a prominent, wide, two-storey gabled bay, paired with its neighbour. The lower entrance bays are narrower and set back, with slate-hung, pointed-arched pent roofs over boarded doors. First-floor windows are casements set within pointed relieving arches. The ground floor features canted bays with cogged cornices and hipped slate roofs. The cottages are bordered by low brick forecourt walls with corniced coping. They are linked architecturally with numbers 16-26 (even) Church Road, numbers 4 and 13 Belvedere Square, and numbers 5-12 and 21-31 Belvedere Square.