Numbers 7 And 8 And Attached Walls And Piers

Numbers 7 and 8 Cambridge Park comprise a pair of attached houses built in 1865 by WH Hawtin. They are constructed of limestone ashlar with ridge and lateral stacks and a concrete tile hipped roof. The design is Italianate, with each house being two storeys and an attic, and featuring a two-window range.

The houses are arranged on a double-depth plan. A symmetrical design features the central section set forward, with single-storey porches on the returns. A moulded band defines the ground floor, with a first-floor sill band, frieze, and cornice, topped by a full attic storey with overhanging eaves. The right-hand porch has a semicircular-arched doorway with key stones and imposts, a plate-glass fanlight, and a two-panel door. To the left, the ground floor has been extended forward with a tripartite window featuring an eared architrave, console keys, and guilloche jambs. A single-storey end porch has large consoles carved with flowers supporting a broken pediment containing a shell. A window has a scrolled key to the architrave. The parapet includes blind sections of circles and half-circles, and steps lead up to a gableted pier with a globe lamp. A slender octagonal stack is located to the side. Canted bays in the middle section have semicircular-arched windows with keys and imposts, thin hoods curved at the ends, and paired brackets supporting an arched cornice. The balustrade is decorated with circles and half-circles. Ground and first-floor windows have architraves and sill blocks; the ground-floor windows are semicircular-arched at the exterior with segmental arches above. The central window is tripartite with an eared architrave and a segmental hood. Flat-headed attic windows have raised surrounds with 2/2-pane sashes. The interior was not inspected.

Attached front garden balustrades and panelled piers, capped at the top, are also part of the listing. These houses are one of seven matching designs, three of which have projecting wings instead of the central section.

Group value context: The building is recognised for its contribution to the architectural identity of the area.