33-38, OAK STREET

A row of six stepped terrace houses built around 1820, with 20th-century alterations. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with various tile roofs. They are of a small double-depth design and were part of a larger development that was later bisected by a railway line; numbers 20-28, located beyond the railway, are similar.

Each house originally had two windows to the front. Number 33 has a concrete tile roof, a twelve-pane sash window with a splayed surround to the ground floor, and a 20th-century door. Numbers 34 and 35 are similar, featuring plain sashes with splayed surrounds to both floors. Number 36 has a concrete tile roof and small balconies to the first floor, along with a 19th-century six-panel door which provides access to both numbers 36 and 37. Number 37 has a pantile roof, a former doorway that is now filled with a window. Number 38 has a double-Roman tile roof and plastic windows to the first floor, along with a plain sash window and a 20th-century door on the ground floor.

The terrace incorporates a first-floor sill band, a moulded cornice, a blocking course, and a parapet. Ashlar stacks rise from the coped verges, cropped at number 35. The north end returns in rubble, and the rear elevation is in coursed squared rubble, with some twelve-pane sashes and French doors leading to small gardens. The interiors have not been inspected. These modest houses are located on the edge of the Georgian city.