1-12, SAXON STREET

A group of three double pairs of houses, dating from around the mid-19th century, are located on Saxon Street in Dover. The construction is primarily stock brick, with stuccoed ground floors and a band below the eaves. The roofs are hipped and finished with Welsh slate, featuring deeply overhanging eaves supported by stuccoed scrolled brackets. The roof slates of numbers 1 to 4 have been replaced with plain tiles, while numbers 5 and 6 have concrete tiles. Rendered axial stacks rise over the ridges.

The houses are arranged in three symmetrically planned blocks, each containing four double houses. The central houses within each block have their doorways arranged symmetrically on the front, whereas the end houses have doorways set into three-storey porches that are set back on the sides. The exterior is three storeys high, with a symmetrical 1:4:1 window arrangement for each block, the narrower end bays being recessed. The ground floors and basements are stuccoed, and a deep entablature sits above the ground floor, projecting forward at the doorways which feature stuccoed pilasters and capitals. A deep stuccoed band and brackets are present under the eaves. The windows are largely original 12-pane sashes, although number 5 has 20th-century plastic windows, and the first floor window of number 2 is a late 19th-century canted bay with sash windows and glazing bars. Most of the original doors have been replaced with 20th-century versions, except for numbers 8, 9 and 12. Some of the houses retain their original 19th-century balustrades to the doorways, with only number 3 retaining its original area railings. Number 1 has a basement garage with a large doorway at the front. The rear elevations are constructed of random brick rubble and remain largely unaltered, retaining original sash windows, with the exception of numbers 1 and 5 which are rendered and number 5, which features plastic windows. The interiors have not been inspected, but it is expected that they will retain some original features, such as joinery, chimney pieces, and staircases.