27 Street

Late 19th century. Two 3-storey and attic, 4-bay, symmetrical tenements with shops at ground, forming part of terrace. Predominantly tooled, squared, coursed yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; painted ashlar and ceramic tiles with chrome detailing to shopfronts at No 29; squared, coursed, bull-faced yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings and some yellow brick to rear; random rubble courtyard wing to rear of No 29 with some droved ashlar dressings. Fascia cornice; continuous 1st-floor hoodmould; eaves course connecting 2nd-floor lintels; cornice. Stop-chamfered quoin strips continuous with eaves course. Stop-chamfered, roll-moulded window margins, shouldered at 1st floor and basket-arched with raised, bracketed cills at 2nd floor. 2 symmetrically placed canted dormers to each block. Polygonal stair tower and 2 dormers to rear of each block.

NO 27: Pend entrance to right of late-20th-century shopfront at ground. INTERIOR: curved stone tenement stair with tongue-and-groove timber panelling to dado level.

NO 29: Two 1930s shopfronts flanking pend entrance at ground. Late-18th- or early-19th-century, 2-storey, L-plan building lining cobbled rear courtyard. INTERIOR: Glazed ceramic tiles and chrome fixtures to walls of both shops. Stone tenement stair with tongue-and-groove timber panelling to dado level.

Fixed plate glass shop windows; predominantly 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows above. Grey slate roof with metal ridge; ashlar-coped skews; coped ashlar end stack with circular buff clay cans.