19-22 Abbey Yard

Terrace of four former workers’ cottages, early C19, altered in the C20.

MATERIALS: hand-made red brick with a rebuilt gable of common brick, roof clad in replacement clay pantiles.

PLAN: a terrace aligned east-west.

EXTERIOR: four, one-bay, two-storey cottages in English Garden Wall bond brickwork. The orange-coloured brickwork of the east gable of number 19 is quoined into the front and rear walls. To the front, the ground floor of each cottage has a door to the right with a four-pane oblong fanlight (overboarded at number 20 painted, elsewhere), and to the left a sash window without horns or glazing bars. The first floor of each cottage is lit by a 16-pane sash window (retaining some historic glass), in a moulded frame. All windows have painted projecting stone sills and wedge lintels. Some render has been applied at the foot of the walls. Ogee cast-iron gutters, with downpipes to the three left-hand cottages. The ridge has half-round clay tiles.

The east wall is largely of late-C20 common bricks, with late-C19 fair-faced bricks at the right-hand angle, and in the gable. The verges have mortar fillets. The gable has a lead-dressed flat apex, with a set-back ridge stack of fair-faced bricks above a rendered plinth, with three terracotta chimney pots.

The rear has a similar appearance to the front, except for the reversed positions of the back doors, which are also flanked by a small rectangular window (mostly overboarded). The first-floor windows are Yorkshire sliding sashes with a mixture of eight and twelve panes. All openings have segmental brick lintels, without sills.