Numbers 32 And 34 And Attached Front Garden Walls And Piers

Numbers 32 and 34 are a pair of attached houses dating to 1896, designed by Henry Dare Bryan. They are built of snecked limestone rubble with limestone dressings, with tile-hung second-floor gables, brick ridge and diagonally-set stacks, and a plain tiled and concrete roof. The houses follow a double-depth plan and are constructed in a Queen Anne style.

The houses are three storeys high, with a four-window range. They present a symmetrical facade with entrances on the sides, and projecting paired central gables. Stone-framed mullion and transom ground-floor windows have fine leaded casements. Carved doorcases feature foliate corbels supporting wany brackets, a tiled canopy, a three-light overlight, a date panel, and a battened, two-leaf elliptical-arched door. The gables have three-light windows with small pediments on the ground floor, timber windows on small brackets with casements and glazing bars on the first floor, and similar windows beneath shallow jettied timber-framed gables on the second floor. Outer ground-floor square bays are flush with the central gables and have four-light windows. Timber railings enclose balconies above, which have Venetian windows with rubbed brick arches. Large eaves dormers have bracketed windows and timber-framed gables. The rear elevation is flat, with semicircular-arched stair lights and a single-storey service block.

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

Attached to the front are garden walls with piers, topped with ball finials. The design is strongly influenced by Norman Shaw’s Bedford Park, 1881.