Numbers 24 And 26 And Attached Front Garden Walls And Piers

A pair of attached houses dating from circa 1892, designed by Henry Dare Bryan. The houses are constructed from snecked limestone rubble with limestone and brick dressings, tile-hung brick ridge and gable stacks, and a concrete tile half-hipped roof. They are built on a double-depth plan and are in the Queen Anne style. Each house stands three storeys high with a three-window range. A symmetrical design features paired gables projecting from the centre. The ground floor incorporates stone-framed mullion and transom casements. The first floor has mullion nine-pane sash windows. Doorways are flanked by cartouches and have curved lintels that extend into the mullion overlights, with battened double doors. Bracketed canopies extend over the doorways to canted cross-window bays. The gables have three-light ground- and first-floor windows, with tile-hung second floors featuring canted oriels on brackets and timber-framed overhanging tops. The outer windows on the first floor are in a paired sash configuration, and there are shallow dormers. The interior was not inspected. Attached to the property are front garden walls and piers with caps. The development demonstrates influence from Norman Shaw’s Bedford Park of 1881.