Berrydene

Berrydene is a terrace of seven houses built in 1892. Constructed of cream-coloured brick with relieving arches and horizontal bands of red brick, with some stone window and door heads, the houses have slated roofs with pierced red ridge tiles. Verandahs are covered with slates, corrugated iron, or concrete tiles. Red brick chimneys are topped with projecting brick courses.

The houses are two storeys high with garrets. The fronts of the middle and end houses, each with a three-window range, are developed into tall gables above the eaves. The intervening houses, designed as mirrored pairs, each have a three-light window at the outer end and a single-light window in the middle. Ground-floor doorways have moulded pointed arches. Nos. 10, 11, and 13 retain original six-panelled outer doors. Nos. 11, 12, 13, and 15 (and possibly others) have inner doors with two sunk panels below and a glazed panel above, the latter with patterned glazing bars, and coloured leaded glass is present at Nos. 12 and 15.

The three gabled houses feature windows with pointed arches, while the garret windows have a Venetian-style three-light design with a pointed relieving arch over the taller central light. A stone plaque inscribed BERRYDENE is above the second-storey window of the central house (No. 13), with the date 1892 cut into the arch of the garret window. The gables have moulded bargeboards. The mirrored pair houses have four-light bay windows in the ground storey, canted towards the door. All but No. 14 have sash windows with two small panes at the top of the upper sash and two more at the bottom of the lower sash. Verandahs are carried on turned wooden columns with ornate iron brackets supporting the head-beam. Upper-storey windows are flat-headed; patterned yellow tiles are set against the party walls between the single-light windows. A bracketed eaves cornice is present. Apart from the bays mentioned, the windows are mostly plain sashes with horns, though Nos. 13 and 14 have late 20th-century PVC windows in original openings.

The design is attributed to WC Oliver, and the terrace represents an outstanding example of its type on the fringe of the central Conservation Area.