5-11 Damory Street

Row of four attached houses, part of a group of sixteen; mid-C19 with later alterations and additions.

MATERIALS: constructed of brick in a Flemish bond; No.5 is painted and No.7 is rendered, under pitched roofs of slate or composite slate with overhanging eaves. There are gable end and central ridge stacks to each block of four houses.

PLAN: arranged in a block of four, two-storey attached houses which are grouped in pairs.

EXTERIOR: the entrance front (west) to each pair of houses comprises a central entrance which is flanked by a window, with three further windows to the first floor. The window openings have lintels of rubbed bricks, but the windows have been replaced in uPVC except for those to No.11 which retains its mid-C19 timber sashes. Each pair of houses has a shared entrance with an iron ‘tent’ canopy hood over supported on wooden, latticework side panels (removed from Nos. 5-7). It opens onto a lobby area which contains a pair of recessed doorways, each serving one of the two paired houses. To the rear (east), the houses each originally had an attached single-storey outbuilding and modern extensions have since been built.

INTERIOR: (based on information provided, no internal inspection, 2015). The interiors are understood to have always been modestly fitted and photographs from sales particulars for Nos. 7 and 9 show that their interiors have inevitably undergone modernisation and some alteration over the years.