35, Gladstone Road

This is a late 17th and early 18th century dwelling, with an early 19th century addition to the left. It was originally two cottages, and is now combined into a single house. The building is constructed of limestone rubble with a painted ashlar facade, and has a triple-Roman tile gambrel roof. The roof is hipped at the front and truncated to the rear, with stone stacks and brick shafts to the left of the main block. Similar tiles cover the pitched roofs of the wings. The plan originally consisted of single-unit cottages, with the left-hand cottage stepped back from the street, and infilled at street level in the early 19th century.

The exterior is two storeys with an attic to the right-hand block, and a single-storey addition to the left. Each block originally had a one-window frontage. A cornice and parapet to the right-hand block creates the impression of a second floor. Platbands run between the floors. Stone mullions with cyma mouldings are present on a two-light window to the attic, and a three-light window below. A blocked door to the right has a roll-edged architrave with a moulded hood on brackets. The early 19th century addition to the left has a three-light window with roll-moulded mullions on the exterior, and chamfered mullions on the interior. The windows are mostly of 19th century design, with 3 fixed panes and one 2-pane casement in each. One window on the front has small panes and a 4/4-pane sash. A 20th-century entrance door is situated in the left return, which has brick cladding of 20th-century stretched-bond design. The rear wall has been reconstructed with 20th-century windows and a door.

The interior of the entrance hall, originally in the 19th-century left wing, features a 19th-century open fire with a segmental brick arch. A rear room has a cross-beam with mortices indicating a previous lower floor. An open fireplace against the party wall contains early 18th century moulded and stopped jambs, where the lintel corners run out. A brick centre to the lintel matches the brickwork of the 19th-century front room. The front room on the right has a painted 19th-century fireplace with ornate consoles. The room above has an axial beam, exposed rafters, and a 18th-century moulded surround to a stone fireplace. The roof structure features exposed butt purlins and rough rafters. The roof space above the eaves displays timber framing to the rear wall. A rear first-floor room has a cross beam and an unusual 19th-century cast-iron fireplace, possibly of French origin.