Nos 9, 11, 13 And 13A And Attached Front Boundary Railings

This is a house, now converted to flats, dating from the early to mid-18th century, with refurbishment in the 19th century and some 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of painted Flemish-bond red brick, with some plastered stone rubble to the rear, brick chimneyshafts, and a slate roof.

The building's main block follows the street line, built down the hill, with a two- or three-room plan, and a single-room section set back slightly at the uphill end. The main block is a double-depth design with former service rooms to the rear left. The main entrance is located to the right of the main block, leading to a former cross passage. The right-end section (Nos 13 and 13A) has 18th-century origins, but the upper section was built in the 19th century.

The exterior is two storeys with attics and a half-basement, with the right-end bay rising to three storeys. The main block has a regular front elevation of six windows, arranged 1:2:1, with late 19th-century four-pane hornless sash windows. Basement and ground-floor windows are arched with low segmental brick arches and projecting brick keystones, except for the ground-floor window on the left, which lacks a keystone. First-floor windows have flat brick arches. A basement doorway, serving No. 9, is hidden behind a late 19th-century lean-to porch, leading to a six-panel door with faceted panels alongside a four-light window with margin glazing and coloured corner panes. The main doorway, serving No. 11, is located at the right end, with steps leading up from the road and incorporating a brick segmental arch with a keystone. This doorway contains an original bead-moulded frame and overlight, with a probably replacement top-glazed eight-panel door. Plat bands are present at ground and first-floor levels, and there is a coved plaster eaves cornice. The roof is divided into two sections: a hipped section over the right three windows, containing a front flat-roofed dormer, and another section to the left, gabled to the right and hipped to the left, with 19th-century terracotta finials to all apexes. The right-end one-window front has a similar style to the ground and first floors. A second-floor canted bay window contains sash windows without glazing bars and has deep eaves to a hipped roof.

The interior, only partially inspected, shows mainly 20th-century modernization, although original layout features and some joinery remain. Plain two-height fielded panelling is found on the right side of the passage, with further fielded panelling (obscured) on the opposite side. More 18th-century features are suspected elsewhere, despite the extensive 20th-century modernization.

Late 19th-century cast-iron boundary railings with ornate spear-headed finials run along the front between the porch and steps, with a gate at the left end. Similar railings enclose the steps and platform to the main door. The building is one of a group of varied listed buildings at the bottom of Ridge Hill.