Numbers 45 And 47 And Attached Front Garden Walls And Piers

A pair of attached houses, Numbers 45 and 47, dated 1898 and designed by Henry Dare Bryan. The houses are constructed of snecked limestone rubble with dressings, have a tile-hung top floor, and brick ridge and diagonally-set external gable stacks. They have a double Roman tile gable and hip roof. The design follows a double-depth plan and is in the Queen Anne style. The houses are three storeys and have a basement, with a five-window frontage. Number 47 turns the corner into Julian Road. The entrances are set back on either side, with projecting paired gables to the centre. The ground floor features stone-framed windows, while the first and second floors have timber windows. The doorways have elliptical arches with winged cupids in the spandrels, set beneath a panel with an eared architrave, leading to two-leaf panelled doors. The central gables are banded and topped with coped details and ball finials. The ground floor windows are Ipswich windows positioned beneath panels containing large cartouches. First and second floor windows are five-light canted bays set flush with the gable under a wide overhanging brick and stone arch. Outer windows have three lights, with fine leaded casements on the left and a balustraded balcony on the right. Shallow bracketed eaves dormers with raked roofs feature on the second floor. Windows on the right have glazing bars to metal casements, with plate glass to the left. The building has large patterned stacks, and a matching gable is present on the left return. The rear elevations are flat, with stair windows and single-storey service blocks. The interior remains uninspected. Attached to the front are garden walls and piers, with ball finials. The design demonstrates a strong influence from Norman Shaw’s Bedford Park, built in 1881.