Rosedale, Including Forecourt Walls & Railings

Rosedale, Nos 1-15 Arenig Street (Odd), Including Forecourt Walls, Railings, and Associated Yard Walls and Outbuildings to the Rear

A highly accomplished Edwardian terrace built in 1909 in sophisticated metropolitan English baroque style. The hoppers are dated.

This refined two-and-a-half storey terrace comprises 8 houses built in good quality red brick with buff sandstone dressings. The facade and sides feature brick construction, while the rear elevation retains its original roughcast treatment. A continuous hipped slate roof with feathered oversailing eaves carries wooden dentilated treatment. There are 5 chimneys with sandstone cappings; those to the far right (serving nos 1 and 2) are rendered.

The terrace is symmetrical and conceived as an overall composition of 18 bays. Four paired bays at the centre and ends are advanced: bays 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 15. The centre pairs feature large segmental pedimented gables with rolled leaded roofs, whilst the outer pairs have hipped slated roofs. Projecting sandstone ashlar quoins mark each advanced pair.

The outer advanced pairs each contain two elegant sash windows to the ground and first floors. Ground-floor windows have 18 panes, first-floor windows 12 panes, with flat arches, fine brick voussoirs, and geometric stone keys. The central advanced pairs have similar first-floor windows but feature paired 4-panel doors with rectangular overlights to the ground floor. The recessed end bays (1 and 5) have similar first-floor windows with matching door entries. The remaining ground-floor bays (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13) contain canted bay windows with 18-pane central sashes and 12-pane flanking sashes; flat roofs have shaped moulded parapets with keystones and voussoirs. The attic floor displays 8 large flat-roofed dormers, each with a 16-pane casement.

The rear elevation is roughcast with segmentally-arched 12-pane sashes, including 22 to the first floor, and 8 slate-hung dormers. Each unit has a ground-floor rear entrance providing access to a small brick-walled yard with boarded entrance. A wash-house and coal store block stands to the rear, with one such block shared between two units.

The terrace retains its original low brick forecourt walls to the front, surmounted by iron railings and gates in Art Nouveau style. The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.