Claverton Buildings

Claverton Buildings comprises five terraced houses, now shops, built in the late 18th century and raised in the early 19th century. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar, painted to the front except for number 10, with concrete tile roofs. They were originally part of a larger terrace of eight houses, extending to number 15.

The buildings are three storeys high, with a basement, appearing as four storeys high at the rear. Numbers 10, 11, and 12 each have a single window to the front, featuring plain sash windows. Number 11 has a twelve-pane sash at the first floor, and number 12 has an eight-pane sash. Number 13 has two plain sashes above three plain sashes, the latter within a moulded architrave with a splayed reveal. Number 14 has two plain sashes at each level and a large, early 19th-century twelve-pane display window to the ground floor, alongside two doors, each set under a moulded hood supported by brackets. A small arched light is located to the right of the additional door.

Nos 10 to 13 have shopfronts added around 1900. These feature plate glass windows under deep fascias and pilaster ends leading to consoles. The shopfronts have been modified with modern windows; however, the one at number 11 may be original, including a central recessed door and small-pane transom lights above the main glazing. In 1991, the removal of the metal fascia at number 13 exposed its Victorian cornice mouldings. Number 14 incorporates a separate door under a deep transom light to the right. Architectural details include a platband, a continuous moulded cornice above the first floor, a small cornice, a blocking course, and a parapet to the second floor – this latter element being slightly stepped down in two places. Large ashlar ridge stacks remain to the left of each property and along each ridge; these are cropped at number 11 and smaller at number 12.

The rear elevations generally have eaves roofs, although they have been variously modified. Number 10 features a bold four-storey canted bay with plain sashes. Numbers 12 and 13 have a large, late 20th-century, flat-roofed, two-storey parallel range. Number 14 has a sixteen-pane sash window at the first floor.

The interiors of the properties have not been inspected. The buildings were altered by the addition of a storey to replace the original attics.