Little Close

A terrace of houses, originally chauffeur's cottages and a laundry for The Close, dating to circa 1895. The buildings are built in the Tudor style using red brick in English bond, with a plain tile roof. The terrace is single-storey with attics, comprising 12 bays. Bays 2 and 11 project forward and are gabled. Between these and the outer bays are slightly projecting half-bays with shaped Dutch gables to the outer sides, featuring board doors under consoled cornices and cross staircase windows to the sides. The gabled bays have shaped quoins, five-light canted bay windows with four-light casements above. Brick bond patterning and two proud diapers feature in the gables. Three-light casements are found in the two central bays and the two bays to the left of the right-hand gabled bay. Two bays to the right of the left-hand gable have small two-light casements at eaves level, designed as garages. The other two bays project forward, incorporating stepped round-arched doorcases with radiating brick voussoirs and banded rustication, set below gabled hipped roofs. Four large banded ridge stacks are present, with those next to the gabled bays sitting atop Dutch gables. An axial stack is located to the rear, left-hand side, featuring paired octagonal flues. The left and right returns of the terrace have gabled bays with four-light casements to both floors and similar detailing to the front.