54-58 London Street

These are a group of three terraced townhouses built in the late 18th century. Shops were added to the ground floor at a later date, and removed from number 56. Further alterations occurred in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

The townhouses are constructed from red brick with a clay tile mansard roof, and have iron spearhead railings to the front and iron balconies to the first floor. Each townhouse is three stories high with attics, and has a rectangular plan oriented east-west, fronting London Street to the east. Number 54 originally had a shop at ground-floor level.

Externally, each townhouse is three bays wide. Numbers 56 and 58 have an entrance doorway in the northernmost bay, followed by two six-over-six sash windows with rubbed brick voussoirs. These entrances have panelled doors and transom lights within a moulded timber doorcase featuring an architrave, cornice and console brackets; the windows at number 56 are replacements reflecting the original design after a shop window was removed. Number 54 has an entrance doorway in the southernmost bay, and a large plate glass shop window occupying the two bays to the north, set within an architrave, moulded cornice and console brackets. The first and second floors have three bays of windows each. The first-floor windows are taller six-over-six sashes, while the second-floor windows are shorter three-over-three sashes. All window openings have flat-arched heads with rubbed brick voussoirs. Ornamental iron balconies are present on each of the first-floor windows. A brick string course sits between the first and second storeys, with a heavy dentilled cornice above, both of which have been painted white. A tile mansard roof covers all three houses. The rear, west elevation displays an irregular arrangement of segmental-headed sash windows.