Ronville

Ronville is a highly accomplished Edwardian terrace built in 1909 in English baroque style, with the hoppers bearing the date of construction.

The terrace comprises 8 houses arranged as a refined composition of two-and-a-half storeys. It is constructed in good quality red brick with buff sandstone dressings to the facade and sides, and original roughcast treatment to the rear elevation. A continuous hipped slate roof with feathered oversailing eaves features wooden dentilated treatment. Five chimneys with sandstone cappings rise from the roof; those serving nos 1 and 2 at the far right are rendered.

The terrace is symmetrical and conceived as an overall composition of 18 bays. Four paired bays are advanced: at bays 1, 5 and 7, 9 and 11, and 15. The centre pairs have 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 bays each contain two elegant sash windows to ground and first floors; the ground floor sashes have 18 panes, the first floor 12 panes, with flat arches featuring fine brick voussoirs and geometric stone keys. The central advanced bays have similar first-floor windows and paired 4-panel doors with rectangular overlights at ground level. The recessed end bays 1 and 5 have comparable first-floor windows with entrances of the same type. 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, with shaped and moulded parapets to flat roofs, keystones and voussoirs. Eight large flat-roofed dormers to the attic floor each contain a 16-pane casement.

The rear elevation is roughcast and features segmentally-arched 12-pane sashes, with 22 sashes to the first floor; 8 slate-hung dormers match those to the front. Each unit has a ground-floor rear entrance providing access to a small brick-walled yard with boarded entrance and a wash-house/coal store block to the rear. One such block is shared between pairs of units.

The terrace retains its original low brick forecourt walls with surmounting iron railings and gates in Art Nouveau style. The listing includes associated yard walls and outbuildings to the rear.