2-5, Edward Street

A group of four terrace houses, built around 1795 and altered in the late 19th century and 20th century. The houses are constructed of limestone ashlar with double-pitched slate mansard roofs, hipped to the left-hand side, and feature paired windows to central dormers. Moulded stacks rise from the coped party walls. Each house has a three-window front with a door to the left. The facade includes a coped parapet, a dentil cornice, and a lintel frieze which projects slightly forward from numbers 6 to 10. A continuous sill band runs across all floors. The plate glass sash windows have moulded architraves above the doors, with narrow pilasters on plinths supporting pediments. Similar doorcases feature flat cornices and eight-panel doors, mostly glazed to the top, with overlights. Number 5 has balconettes to the first floor and the Prince of Wales feathers carved into the frieze above the door. The interior of number 4 includes a heavy marble Victorian fireplace and elegant eight-panel arched double doors. An advertisement appeared on 25th September 1794, offering "2 unfinished dwelling houses now erecting and shop adjoining situate in Edward Street." The development was affected by the building slump of that year. Number 5 was separately listed on 11th August 1972.