6 The Crescent

This is a townhouse dating from the late 18th to early 19th century, with alterations made in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The main structure is built of fair-faced English-bond brick with painted stucco and plain ashlar dressings, topped with Welsh slate clad roofs. The secondary bathroom range uses fair-faced brick in English garden wall bond.

The building has a rhomboid-plan main body with a projecting extension, creating an overall L-shaped plan. The main elevation faces south-west and comprises five bays. Entry is through a central panelled door with a rectangular fanlight featuring vertical glazing bars, set within a doorcase with panelled reveals. The door is flanked by plain Tuscan pilasters and supported by a pair of fluted Tuscan columns with a plain entablature, forming a porch. On either side of the doorway are slightly recessed 12-light (six-over-six) sash windows without horns, with partially exposed sash boxes, painted sills, stucco voussoirs, and gadrooned keystones. Five identical windows lighting the first floor rest on a continuous sill band that wraps around the north-west side elevation. This north-west elevation has two similar sash windows with raised voussoirs to each floor, offset to the left.

A basket-arched passageway at the extreme left of the north-west elevation allows passage from The Crescent to Park Row. It features a classical-style wooden doorcase with panelled pilasters, fluted consoles, a dentilled closed pediment, panelled reveals, and a blind semi-circular fanlight.

The main range roof is obscured by a coped parapet that curves at the junction with the roof line of 5 The Crescent. Three brick chimney stacks are present, along with a gable to the south-east with raised and coped verges and plain coped brick kneelers, and a partially exposed gable to the north-east with a coped verge terminating in an ashlar kneeler. The roof drains through obscured gutters emerging through the parapet walls into cast-iron downpipes with chamfered storm boxes, and via a cast-iron eaves gutter to the rear. The rear elevation has two offset 12-light sash windows with painted sills and plain brick lintels, a small rear door, a tall stair window with a semi-circular brick arch, and opens to the passageway through a plain basket-arched doorway.

An early 19th-century two-storey, two-bay extension is set back slightly from the main elevation and is lower in height. Each floor has two 16-light (eight-over-eight) sash windows resting on painted ashlar sills with gadrooned keystones. The blind south-east gable features a four-panelled door offset to the right. The rear elevation has a pair of modern multi-pane sash windows to the ground floor.

A secondary two-storey rectangular-plan bathroom and toilet range, dating from the late 1890s, obscures the remainder of the rear elevation. It has an obscured flat roof and small casement windows with segmental brick lintels and painted sills to both floors. The slate-clad gable roof carries a tall central brick chimney stack and a coped gable verge terminating in ashlar kneelers.