No.23 And Attached Railings And Grating

Two attached houses, now flats, were built around 1775 to 1789 and subsequently altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The front elevations are limestone ashlar, now painted, with timber bressumers over the ground floors. The rear elevations incorporate rubble stonework and double-pile mansard roofs. The front roofs are parapeted with pantile finishing the upper slopes and double Roman tiles on the lower slopes; the rear has Welsh slate. One house has two ashlar stacks at the left end, including some early clay pots, while the other has a rendered stack at the left end of the front roof and an L-plan stack rising from the rear wall to the left.

Each house is three storeys high with an attic and basement, and follows a single-bay, two-window range arrangement. The house on the left has paired plate glass sash windows with horns to the first floor and similar windows to the second. The ground floor has a six-pane sash window to the left and a 20th-century five-panel door set within a stone porch with a reeded stone hood. The basement window is blocked. A dormer window with a six-pane sash is visible. The house to the right mirrors this arrangement, with paired six-pane sashes on the first and second floors, a six-pane sash on the ground floor, a disused 20th-century six-panel door, and a blocked basement window. A dormer also features a six-pane sash. Both houses have a moulded eaves cornice and a coped parapet rebuilt in reconstituted stone.

The rear elevations have six-pane sashes, typically with horns, except for the ground floor on the left and the second floor on the right. 20th-century alterations have occurred to the basements and a 20th-century porch attached to the left-hand house provides rear access to the flats. The inspected interior of the left-hand house features a closed-string stick baluster staircase with a Doric newel, though this has undergone 20th-century alterations. The house on the right has attached wrought iron railings and a gate, with urn heads on limestone bases.