Gingerbread Cottage

Gingerbread Cottage, 1-15 Erskine Terrace

A terrace of two-storey single-fronted houses constructed in rubble stone with slate roofs and mainly shared stone stacks. A pebble-dashed stack appears between Nos 1 and 3 and at the right end of No 15. Upper storey windows feature segmental stone heads positioned beneath gables.

No 1 occupies the corner with Chapel Street. It has brick steps leading to a half-glazed replacement panel door on the left and 2-pane horned sash windows on the right. Its left gable end is pebble-dashed and contains a 2-pane horned sash window in the upper storey.

Nos 3-13 are arranged in reflected pairs with entrances positioned on the inner sides. No 3 has a replacement half-glazed door, ground-floor 12-pane and first-floor 9-pane hornless sash windows. No 5 features a replacement door, 2-pane horned sash window at ground floor and a replacement top-hung casement above. The terrace steps up between Nos 5 and 7. Nos 7 and 9 both have replacement doors and replacement top-hung casement windows. Nos 11-13 share replacement doors with 2-pane sash windows at ground floor and replacement first-floor top-hung casements.

No 15 is slightly higher than the remainder of the row, though the roof pitch remains consistent. It has a boarded door on the left and 12-pane and 9-pane hornless sash windows. Its right gable end is pebble-dashed where an earlier attached building has been removed.

To the rear, No 1 has a wing with 2-pane sashes in each storey facing Chapel Street. Nos 3-13 have replacement windows and 1960s paired two-storey flat roof extensions with a higher eaves line than the main range.