10 Wexham Street

10 Wexham Street

This property is part of a row of five 1½-storey cottages. All five have painted pebble-dashed walls, steep slate roofs and roughcast chimney stacks that have been reduced in height. Each cottage is characterised by a central doorway, flanking windows and a gabled dormer positioned above the doorway. Photographs from around 1912 and 1937 show that Nos 4 and 6 originally had raked dormers, which have since been replaced with gabled ones.

Number 10, the largest house in the row, has particular architectural distinction. Its half-glazed door features fielded panels and Gothic intersecting glazing bars, set within a freestone surround with a moulded cornice. The windows are 2-light casements. A rubble-stone garden wall with a boarded door is attached to the left end of the house. The left gable end contains a small stair light positioned to the right of centre.

Alterations and Extensions

At the rear, No 10 has a replacement window to the right below a skylight. A long single-storey rear wing extends to the left, constructed of pebble-dashed walls with a slate roof and 20th-century detailing.

Interior

The interior was originally laid out as two units but is now a single room. One of two cross beams retains slots for a timber-framed partition that once divided the space. The fireplace on the left is largely reconstructed. A former fireplace stair once stood to the left of this fireplace; evidence of its location is provided by the stair light visible in the gable end. This stair has been removed and replaced.

The roof retains two trusses, one of which is concealed. The exposed truss shows the joints of a former dovetailed collar beam, which was removed and replaced by scissor braces to provide additional room in the loft space.

The five cottages form a group listed together as 2–10 Wexham Street.