Nos 3-11 (Consec) Prior Park Cottages, With Railings And Gates

A row of nine terrace houses was built around 1830, possibly designed by John Pinch the Elder. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with concrete tile roofs. They form a steeply stepped row, each house being single depth and three storeys high, with a two-window front. The windows are varied sash windows; No.3 has twelve panes to all windows, No.4 has sixteen panes at ground and second floor and twelve at first floor, Nos 5 and 7 have four panes, and the others are plain sashes. No.8 has modern aluminium window and door replacements, and No.11 has a large, late Victorian mullioned bay window with a pierced balustrade to the ground floor. Decorative iron balustrades are present to the first-floor windows of Nos 6 and 7, while Nos 9 and 10 each have a rail to one first-floor window. The doors are generally six-panelled with glazing. Each house has a lintel, frieze and cornice above the first floor, and a cornice, blocking course and parapet to the second floor, suggesting a possible raising of the buildings by one storey, although this is not evident in the masonry. Each party division features an ashlar stack, with a larger shared stack serving Nos 10 and 11. The rear elevation is also in ashlar with eaves roofs and various sash windows; Nos 6-11 have large, centralised sixteen-pane windows to the second floor. The return to the right is plain. Each house has spearhead railings to the curb, returned at the party divisions, with simple gates; a decorative cast iron gate is present at No.6. The uppermost houses sit behind front gardens and are accessed via a path. The interiors have not been inspected. The cottages were likely built following the construction of Prior Park Buildings around 1825, though they were not shown on the Prior Park estate map of 1828.