18, 20 AND 22, WORCESTER STREET

A terrace of three houses, built in 1825 and subsequently altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The houses are constructed of red brick with stone detailing, topped with a gabled slate roof and a brick ridge stack. They are a double-depth block with rear wings to numbers 20 and 22.

The front of the buildings is three storeys high. The ground floor now contains three 20th-century shop fronts. A continuous stone string course runs along the first-floor sill level. The upper floors present as an arcade, with segmental-arched recesses in each of the two bays of each former house. A continuous, stone-coped parapet sits above the arcading. The first floor windows are sash windows; numbers 18 and 20 have been replaced with late 19th-century sashes featuring central vertical bars (removed from number 20), while number 22 retains original sashes with 3x4 panes of glazing. The second-floor windows are also sash windows; numbers 18 and 22 retain original glazing bars (3x3 panes), while number 20 has 20th-century fixed sashes. All upper-floor sashes are set within flat-arched heads with five raised-and-stepped stone voussoirs and projecting stone sills. The interior has not been inspected.