7, 8 And 8A, Courtenay Park Road

The building at 7, 8 and 8A Courtenay Park Road comprises a pair of semi-detached houses, now used as a residential home and two flats. They were built in the mid-19th century as part of the Courtenay Park development, which was laid out in 1854. The houses are stucco-faced with hipped slate roofs covering stepped-forward outer ranges. Number 7 has been altered with a 20th-century roughcast finish and slate roof, and a 20th-century rendered stack is present to the left. Number 8 has moulded stacks to the party wall and right. The houses have double-depth plans and late 19th-century rear extensions. Each house is two storeys and has a 1:2:1 window arrangement due to the projecting end bays. Features include a plinth, plain eaves bands, sill bands and pilasters with quoins, bracketed sills and horizontal glazing bars to 2/2-pane sash windows. Ground floor windows are set beneath plain pediments, while first-floor windows are under the eaves band. The tripartite windows are located in the outer ranges. The entrances to numbers 7 and 8 have possibly been altered, while number 8A has a central four-panel door with overlight. A late 19th-century cast-iron verandah with barley-sugar-twist columns is located at the rear of number 7. Rear windows are glazing bar sashes. Inside number 7, original features include a staircase with turned balusters and some four-panel doors.