74 and 76 London Street

Former townhouse, now divided into flats. The building was constructed in the mid-18th century and extended northward with three additional bays in the late 18th or early 19th century.

The main street-facing east elevation is built of red brick laid in Flemish bond, painted white at basement level. The rear elevation is of grey brick with red brick dressings. The front features a plain tiled mansard roof, while the rear has a gabled slate roof. The later extensions have red clay-tiled gabled roofs.

The building comprises a rectangular plan: a two-storey townhouse with basement and attic, plus a later two-storey extension to the north.

The east elevation of the original mid-18th-century townhouse presents a five-bay symmetrical composition. A central pedimented doorway is flanked by sash windows. The entrance is approached by stone steps and contains a six-panelled door with a transom light, set within a substantial doorcase featuring moulded pilasters resting on pedestals that support a frieze and heavily moulded segmental pediment. On each side of the entrance are two six-over-six sash windows with narrow glazing bars, rubbed brick voussoirs and stone cills. The first floor has matching six-over-six sashes beneath a heavily moulded cornice and brick parapet. Behind the parapet sits a plain-tiled mansard roof containing squat six-over-six sash dormer windows. Two red brick chimney stacks with clay pots rise above each end of the roof. The basement has sash windows and iron railings front the property.

The late 18th or early 19th-century north extension is three bays wide and lower in height. Its ground floor contains a carriage arch in the northernmost bay and two sash windows, with a further three sashes to the first floor beneath a heavily moulded cornice. All windows are six-over-six sashes with narrow glazing bars, rubbed brick voussoirs and stone cills. Two red clay-tiled gabled roofs sit behind the cornice.

The rear elevation of the main townhouse range is an irregular three-bay composition in grey brick with red brick dressings. The ground floor comprises, from left to right, a six-over-six sash window, a pedimented doorway and a tripartite sash window. The doorway is approached by stone steps flanked by railings and contains a half-glazed panelled door within a doorcase with consoles supporting a moulded triangular pediment. At first floor level are, from left to right, a six-over-six sash, a low-set six-over-six sash, and a tripartite sash window. The central sash is set below earlier red brick jambs, indicating it has been lowered at a later date. A gabled slate-covered roof contains three squat six-over-six sash dormer windows and a roof light. All sashes on this elevation have exposed sash boxes.

The adjoining north extension is built of the same materials and measures two bays wide on the rear elevation. At ground floor level it has the carriage arch and a half-glazed doorway with a side light. The first floor contains a six-over-six and eight-over-eight sash window. The sash boxes to the extension are set behind the brickwork.