54-58 London Street

Terraced townhouses. Built in the late C18 with ground floor shops later added (and removed from number 56) and alterations in the late C19 and C20.

MATERIALS: constructed of red brick with a clay tile mansard roof. There are iron spearhead railings to the front of the properties and iron balconies to the first floor.

PLAN: a terrace of three, three-storey townhouses with attics. Each property is of a rectangular plan orientated east-west, fronting London Street to the east. There is a former shop to the ground floor of 54 London Street.

EXTERIORS: each townhouse is three bays wide. At ground-floor level, 56 and 58 London Street have an entrance doorway in the northernmost bay followed by two six-over-six sash windows with narrow glazing bars and rubbed brick voussoirs to the south. The entrances have a panelled door and transom light surrounded by a moulded timber doorcase with architrave, cornice and console brackets. The windows to number 56 are a late-C20 reinstatement of the original form, following the removal of an earlier shop window. 54 London Street has an entrance doorway in the southernmost bay and a shop window with a large plate glass window occupying the two bays to the north. The shop window is surrounded by an architrave, moulded cornice and console brackets. At the first- and second-floor level, all three houses have three bays of fenestration. The windows reflect Classical proportions; tall six-over-six sashes to the piano nobile at first floor level and shorter sashes to the second floor, comprising three-over-three panes. All the openings have flat-arched heads with rubbed brick voussoirs. There are ornamental iron balconies to each of the first-floor windows. A brick string course runs between the first and second storeys, and a heavy dentilled cornice is located between the second storey and the brick parapet. Both the string course and cornice have been painted white. A tile mansard roof covers the three houses. The rear, west elevation is an irregular arrangement of segmental-headed sash windows to each house.