Hillsborough And Bloomfield

A terrace of fourteen houses, built around 1870 and completed by 1876, situated on Pennsylvania Road. The terrace is constructed with Flemish bond red brick, retaining original tuck-pointing, and has slate roofs with six front gables. Brick stacks feature corbelled cornices and multiple old pots. The houses were designed symmetrically and are set back from the road behind small gardens. Originally, each house had a one-room-wide, two-room-deep layout, with rear service wings and a service yard, some of which have since been extended. The houses on the right have their front doors positioned to the right of the entrance, while those on the left have doors to the left. The central house features a recessed single-storey porch. A stucco sign displaying "BLOOMFIELD" is visible on the left half of the terrace, and "HILLSBOROUGH" is painted on brickwork and a similar sign on the right end, suggesting development by different contractors.

The two-storey houses have attics in six of them. The front elevation is symmetrical, with two windows per house. The end houses are slightly forward-projecting and gabled, with pierced bargeboards and pendants. A similar treatment is applied to the centre pair, featuring a narrow recessed bay. Numbers 37 and 44 are also forward-projecting and gabled. Deep eaves are adorned with paired eaves brackets. Each house has steps leading to front doors featuring four moulded panels and plain overlights, set within doorcases with deep projecting cornices supported by richly decorated consoles. The ground floor has canted bay windows with moulded cornices and lead roofs. Most first floor windows retain their original four-pane timber sashes with margin panes; however, number 42 has a plastic window on the ground floor. The left-hand houses have painted voussoirs and keyblocks on their windows, a similar detail to those on the second floor. The right-hand houses have boards over the lintels, and some retain the housings for louvred sliding sun shutters with timber canopies and bases on moulded blocks. The gabled houses have matching attic windows.

The interiors were not inspected, but some houses are known to retain original stairs with turned balusters and joinery. The terrace exemplifies high-quality middle-class housing developed in the Pennsylvania area between 1860 and 1910 and is depicted on the 1876 Ordnance Survey map.