4 Club Street

Nos 1-7 Club Street (Benefit Society Cottages)

This range of cottages is divided into two distinct sections. Nos 1-4 form a continuously-roofed block, while nos 5-7 are stepped-up and adjoining, creating a symmetrical group of three. Each unit is set back slightly from the road behind a forecourt garden.

The buildings are constructed of coursed, roughly-dressed stone with slate roofs and tiled ridges. Simple end chimneys mark the divisions between units.

Nos 1 to 4 are arranged as a reflected group. The central pair, nos 2 and 3, each have two windows on both floors with central entrances. The outer units, nos 1 and 4, have single windows with entrances to the left. The entrance to no 2 retains its original six-panel door with rectangular overlight; the other doors are modern, with the door to no 1 boarded. The ground floor windows are original twelve-pane casements with intersecting wooden tracery heads and returned slatestone labels above slate lintels. The right ground floor window to no 3 is modern, set in an enlarged opening created during a late 19th or early 20th century shop alteration. The first floor windows, positioned under the eaves, are original twelve-pane sashes with projecting sills.

Nos 5-7 form a symmetrical group with no 6 (Si-yr-Afon) advanced to the centre beneath a wide gable. This central unit has a two-window front with central entrance and a stringcourse above the first-floor windows. A recessed dedication plaque with returned label sits in the gable apex. The ground and first floor windows here are enlarged and modern, as is the door, all with plaster architraves. Nos 5 and 7 are single-window units with returned labels to their ground-floor windows and outer entrances; both have modern doors and glazing and plain sashes to the upper floor.

With the exception of no 2, which retains small sash windows to the rear, each unit has modern rear extensions. The extension to no 7 is particularly substantial, a large storeyed addition.