Numbers 28 And 30 And Attached Piers And Front Garden Walls

A pair of attached houses dated 1896, designed by Henry Dare Bryan. The houses are constructed from snecked limestone rubble with dressings, have a tile-hung second floor, brick ridge and diagonally-set gable stacks, and a tile hip and gable roof. They are built on a double-depth plan and are in the Queen Anne style.

The houses have three storeys and a two-window front. They are symmetrical, with entrances located on the sides and projecting outer gables. The stone-framed ground- and first-floor windows are a prominent feature. The carved doorcases have winged cupid corbels supporting fluted half pilasters, Tudor-arched overlights, and a dentil cornice, sheltering a two-leaf, battened door. Ground floor windows are mullion and transom, while first-floor windows are plate-glass casements with glazing bars above the transoms. The second-floor windows are timber and project slightly on small brackets. The gables feature two-storey canted bays with tiled panels, and 2-light ground- and first-floor windows are situated below the overhanging tile-hung gable, which has 3-light windows and a jettied, half-timbered apex. A flat section between the gables contains a ground floor flush with the outer gables, featuring a tiled lean-to roof, 3-light windows, 2-light first-floor windows, and 3-light eaves dormers with half-timbered gables. The rear elevation presents a flat façade with semicircular-arched stair lights and a single-storey service block.

The interior includes a hall screen with stained glass, a black and white tiled hall, an elliptical archway to a dogleg staircase with turned balusters and large turned newels, five-panel doors, cornices, and fireplaces.

Attached to the front are rubble garden walls and piers with domed caps. The design is strongly influenced by Norman Shaw’s Bedford Park (1881).