Leny And Attached Gateway And Front Garden Walls And Railings

A pair of attached houses dating to circa 1830, constructed of limestone ashlar with external and party wall stacks and a slate roof. They are double-depth in plan and built in the Tudor Gothic Revival style. Each house has two storeys, a basement, and an attic, with a two-window front. The symmetrical front features projecting wings with small raised gables, shallow first-floor and attic drip courses, and a moulded parapet. Blind windows are present on the party wall. The canted outer three-light bays have a wavy running moulding below the parapet, with Tudor-arched windows containing 4/4-pane sashes. The attic above these bays also has Tudor-arched windows. Other windows have shallow architraves, featuring 6/6-pane sashes, with 3/3-pane windows to the attic, some retaining Tudor-arched top panes. The right-hand return has a central open porch, a Tudor-arched doorway with a hoodmould and pitched parapet with wavy mouldings, leading to a Tudor-arched, half-glazed double door. Above the door is a shallow, gabled projection with a second-floor Tudor-arched window, and a right-hand bay with paired 4/4-pane sashes. An external stack is located on the left-hand side. The left-hand return has a two-storey porch with cinquefoil-headed windows and a machicolated parapet, attached to a two-storey bay featuring mullion and transom windows and a crenellated parapet. The interior remains uninspected. Attached to No.6 is an ashlar gateway with a semicircular-arched doorway, panelled surround, Jacobethan pilasters, and a cartouche inscribed “LENY”. Rubble front garden walls are present, along with panelled piers and railings featuring fleur-de-lys heads. These are among the earliest of two fine pairs of Tudor Gothic villas; Nos. 8 & 9 represent a later, more ornate example.