16-28 New Street

Terrace of shops, early-C19 with late-C19 and C20 alterations.

MATERIALS: brown brick, now rendered, pan-tile roof, timber windows.

PLAN: two-storey terrace aligned south-west to north-east, with single-storey catslide rear extension.

EXTERIOR: facing north-west onto New Street and currently six shops. Of two storeys with brick-bracketed eaves cornice and ogee cast-iron gutter with scrolled stays. Recessed doorways and rectangular fanlights, and inclined fascias with simplified scroll consoles, bracketed by larger consoles at 16 and 26. Numbers 24 and 22 share a recessed entrance, and number 16 at the right (formerly two units) is the same. Shop windows, number 22 with glazing bars and number 24 with glazing bars and transoms. Number 28 has a higher fascia, and windows with leaded transom lights. It and 24/22 have black and white tile floors in the entrance. First-floor windows are three-pane casements with two transom lights.

The brick gable end to number 28 is blind, with a truncated ridge stack.

The original rear wall is hidden by a narrow secondary extension with a cat-slide pantile roof, which runs the full length of the rear of the terrace; all ground-floor openings in the rear extension have been blocked. Numbers 24, 26 and 28 have a deeper plan and taller ridge, and first floor rear walls above the extension. The attic and first-floor windows of the south-west gable wall of number 24 have been bricked-up, Number 26's rear window is obscured by boarding, and number 28 is lit by a 12-pane Yorkshire sash window. The pitched roofs of numbers 14 to 20 are clad in pantiles, number 26 has a similar roof with a shallow mono-pitched roof to the rear that is clad in corrugated asbestos sheeting, and the gabled roofs of numbers 24 and 28 have been treated in a similar manner.