40-44, ST THOMAS'S STREET

This is a terrace of four buildings, numbers 40 to 44 St Thomas’s Street, dating from around 1840 and built in a Jacobean revival style. The buildings are three storeys high with an attic and basement. They are constructed of red brick and rubble, with a rendered and rusticated facade. The quoins are vermiculated on the ground floor of numbers 40 and 44. There are three slightly projecting bays, each with a shaped gable and spike finial, topped by a steep-pitched tiled roof. Two dormers feature a brick tympanum and moulded arch with a keystone. Numbers 40 and 44 have an additional single window bay at their east and west ends, respectively, while numbers 41, 42 and 43 each have a single window. The attic windows, located in the gables and dormers, are sash windows with original glazing bars; they have plain rendered surrounds to the dormers and rendered, shouldered surrounds in the gables. All windows are recessed. Casement windows are found in the eastern and western bays on the second floor, while elsewhere, the sash windows have a tripartite division giving the impression of mullions. The first-floor windows are larger versions of those on the second floor and incorporate some casements with rusticated surrounds. The ground-floor windows are similar but narrower, with vermiculated surrounds on numbers 40 and 44. The doorways to numbers 41, 42 and 43 are set within the projecting bays, so that their plain rendered surrounds are exposed on one side. The doors are recessed, panelled, with three lights and mullions. The doors of numbers 40 and 44 are more recent, but retain a similar surround to the others, although they are centred in the end bays and feature a right angle instead of a straight flight of steps. Rendered piers with gabled caps flank the steps.