Corporation Buildings And Attached Walls

A terrace of local authority flats was completed in 1898. The building is constructed of painted brick with stone sills, concrete floors, stairs and landings, and has slate roofs with projecting eaves, clay tile cresting, and shaped finials. Seven gables feature collared and arch-braced trusses above paired windows on two out of three fronts. Deep brick axial stacks have stepped cornices. A plaque on Vauxhall Street commemorates the building as an example of early local authority housing. The houses are split horizontally, providing extra access to the upper floors.

The two-storey terrace steps up the street. Stepped corbelled segmental arches are present over alternating paired and single 9/2-pane horned sash windows. The ground floor has a plinth and a shaped string above the openings. Similar arches are above the paired sashes, alternating with paired doorways featuring plain segmental arches. A single doorway is present at the right, and a doorway of No.15 is on the return at the left-hand end. Tall overlights and four-panel doors are also present there.

The rear of the building remains unaltered and includes dwarf boundary walls linked to a series of flying concrete staircases with steel balustrades, leading up to landings and doorways with four-pane overlights and partly glazed doors. The arrangement of windows and doors on the ground floor is similar to the front.

The interiors were not inspected. Subsidiary features include brick walls to the street frontage, and the walls and staircases described above. The buildings form part of a complex of practically unaltered early local authority housing.