1-5, Barrowhill Place

TR 04 SW ASHFORD BARROWHILL PLACE

750/3/186A Numbers 1 to 5 (Consecutive)

04.06.1976

GV II

Terrace of houses. Circa 1845-50, probably to house employees of the railway company. 3 storeys and basement red brick with a vertical strip painted between the houses from the 1st to 2nd floor to represent pilasters. Cornice and parapet. Painted stringcourse above the ground floor, 2 sashes to each with glazing bars intact. Round-headed windows on the ground floor. Round-headed doorways with semi-circular fanlights and doors of 5 fielded panels. No 1 faces east and has a stuccoed porch of solid type with twin Doric pilasters and similar doorway to the other houses, the rear elevation has a slate roof with a series of hips. The land was owned by a William Betts, probably a relative of Edward Betts one of the contractors for the building of the railway and the census retaurns for 1851 show a large number of the occupants of the houses to have been employed by the railway company.Nos 1-8 Barrowhill Place form a group.

Listing NGR: TR0054443047