Arundel And Boundary Wall And Gate Piers

A pair of semi-detached houses, now combined into one property, were built in the mid-19th century. They were originally known as Arundel and Newliston. The houses have solid, rendered walls, likely of brick or stone, and slate roofs, except for the flat-roofed entrance porches. The main houses have hipped roofs, while the rear wings have hipped roofs facing inwards. A rendered chimney sits on the central ridge above the party wall, with rear wings featuring chimneys; the right-hand wing's chimney is of red brick, and the left-hand wing's is rendered.

The houses are arranged with mirrored plans, featuring entrance porches set back slightly at opposite ends. Small rear wings extend behind each porch, running parallel to the main house and projecting beyond the outer side wall of the porch. Each house is two storeys high with high semi-basements and has a two-window front, with an additional window in each porch and rear wing. A broad band sits above the semi-basement, and a moulded string course runs at first-floor level. The semi-basement windows are plain with sashes featuring two upright glazing bars. The ground-floor windows have segmental heads with vermiculated archivolts, keystones springing from moulded imposts supported by large brackets, and projecting cills on small brackets. These windows contain sashes with one horizontal glazing bar. The second-storey windows have moulded, eaved architraves, cills on small brackets, and six-paned sashes. A bracketed eaves cornice is present.

The entrance porches have three-panelled doors and door-heads that match the ground-storey windows, though the imposts for the door are supported by only two brackets, and a flight of steps leads up to them, flanked by low walls with a flat stone coping. The upper-storey windows have six-paned sashes. A top cornice is present on the right-hand porch, while the left-hand house features a parapet where the cornice had been removed.

Rear wings have mostly plain windows, although some have been altered; the second-storey windows retain projecting cills, and the ground-storey window of the right-hand house has a decorative iron window-box holder. The semi-basement of the left-hand wing features a six-panelled door, while the right-hand wing has a four-panelled door with a late 19th-century porch with turned wood columns and decorative iron brackets. Both wings have bracketed eaves cornices. Rear windows, visible from the passage leading to Barbican Road, have largely been altered, but the left-hand house appears to retain some barred sashes. The interior of the houses has not been inspected.

The gate piers at the front are constructed of ashlar stone with moulded caps. A boundary wall of stone rubble has shaped red brick coping. Victoria Road was created in 1853.