8, 10, and 12 Finkle Street

A terrace of three houses of the early to mid-C18, altered as commercial properties in the C19.

MATERIALS: fair-faced brown brick, pantile roof.

PLAN: two-storey terrace aligned south-west to north-east, with two-storey rear ranges accessed by passages between each house.

EXTERIOR: facing north-west onto Finkle Street, with a biletted eaves band and proud band above the first-floor windows. Numbers 12 and 10 (at the left) are bracketed by coped gables with shaped kneelers and have a straight vertical joint with number 8, which simply abuts the adjacent building; number 8’s bands are one brick higher than those of 12 and 10, and its ridge is also higher. Passages to the rear at the left of number 8 (with replacement three-pane fanlight over), and the right of number 12. Painted stone sills, and rubbed-brick wedge lintels.

Number 8 is of two bays, with a late-C19 shopfront to the right of the passage. The shopfront has a central recessed and splayed entrance with decorative tiled floor, and a half-glazed panelled door with overlight. Panelled stallrisers, slender baluster corner glazing bars. Framed by simple pilasters with inclined fluted consoles, pyramidal stop projections and semi-circular caps. Replacement sash windows above, with horns and no glazing bars.

Number 10 has a single replacement sash matching number 8, above an altered C20 shopfront.

Number 12 is of three bays, oversailing the former passage to the rear of number 10, and with a blind window in the centre (retaining a projecting pub sign). Its shopfront is also C20 and altered. There are tie-rod pattress plates below the eaves.

A banded brick ridge stack with three terracotta pots rises above the party wall between numbers 10 and 12, and a capped and truncated chimneystack rises over the north-east wall of number 12.

The rear of number 8 has two depressed brick relieving arches over casement windows.